Treatment recommendations for advanced gastric cancer in the elderly

We all know that if we discover a disease in the early stages it can be easily cured, but many diseases are not discovered until the late stages, mainly because the early symptoms are not very obvious. Let us first let the experts talk about the treatment recommendations for advanced gastric cancer in the elderly.

1. Local treatment of advanced gastric cancer

The treatment methods for advanced gastric cancer are mainly surgery, radiotherapy, etc. The chances of local treatment for advanced gastric cancer are small, and the effect is not ideal. However, clinical findings show that if the primary tumor can be actively removed, some complications related to advanced tumors can be effectively reduced, and favorable conditions can be created for subsequent treatment.

2. Chemotherapy for Advanced Gastric Cancer

There are two main chemotherapy treatment methods for advanced gastric cancer: single-drug chemotherapy and combined chemotherapy. Generally speaking, the efficacy of combined chemotherapy is better than that of single-drug chemotherapy. Therefore, combined chemotherapy is often used in the clinical treatment of advanced gastric cancer. Its advantage is that it can quickly relieve the patient's symptoms and has good short-term efficacy. However, patients with advanced gastric cancer often relapse shortly after completing the chemotherapy regimen, and as the chemotherapy time increases, the toxicity of the treatment gradually increases. Therefore, chemotherapy has great limitations and cannot be used as a long-term treatment for advanced gastric cancer.

3. Cellular Immunotherapy for Advanced Gastric Cancer

Cellular immunotherapy in the treatment of advanced gastric cancer has obvious advantages in improving patient symptoms, improving quality of life and prolonging survival. Cellular immunotherapy for advanced gastric cancer starts from the overall perspective. While effectively killing cancer cells, it can also regulate and restore the body's immune function, kill formed tumor cells, inhibit the formation of new tumor cells, and block the source of tumor recurrence and metastasis.

4. Treatment of pain in advanced gastric cancer

Gastric cancer often metastasizes in the late stage, such as bone metastasis, lung metastasis, liver metastasis and brain metastasis. If bone metastasis occurs, it is easy to cause cancer pain, which often makes patients miserable and seriously affects the quality of life of patients. Therefore, in addition to timely treatment of gastric cancer metastasis, pain relief is also needed.