What are the symptoms of gastric cancer

As the disease progresses, it may manifest as increasingly severe pain, followed by some early fullness, vomiting, and even vomiting blood. There may be some black stools and gastrointestinal bleeding. Then the patient will gradually become thin and fatigued, and the short-term weight loss is very obvious. The symptoms of gastric cancer are, in order, upper abdominal pain, swelling, thinness, loss of appetite, vomiting black stools, vomiting blood, and abdominal pain. Gastric cancer also has some special metastatic symptoms.

Is chemotherapy effective for gastric cancer?

Gastric cancer is caused by an unreasonable diet and is generally divided into three stages: early gastric cancer, mid-stage gastric cancer, and late gastric cancer. If you want to undergo chemotherapy, you should first check which stage you belong to before undergoing treatment. Chemotherapy for gastric cancer is less efficient and can only be used as an adjuvant treatment, that is, it is generally used as an adjuvant treatment before, during, and after surgery, which can achieve the following purposes: 1. Limit lesions and increase surgical resection rates. Chemotherapy for gastric cancer is generally useful. When a gastric cancer patient reaches late-stage gastric cancer, first look at the patient's condition and whether the patient is suitable for chemotherapy. If the liver function is normal and the body's resistance is high, the patient can undergo chemotherapy, but chemotherapy can only relieve cancer symptoms and prolong life, but the treatment effect is not very good.

How long can you live after chemotherapy for gastric cancer?

The survival period after chemotherapy for gastric cancer mainly depends on several aspects after surgery for early gastric cancer. 4-6 months is used to completely kill tumor cells, because there is no invasion or reduced invasion of surrounding tissues, the prognosis is very good, and clinical cure can be achieved. Chemotherapy for gastric cancer is an important means of treating this disease, especially for relatively large lesions that cannot be surgically removed. Chemotherapy can reduce the lesions and then perform surgical resection, which can improve the patient's surgical resection rate and radical cure. The time interval for chemotherapy in gastric cancer patients is different, and it is mainly affected by three factors in clinical practice: gastric cancer staging, chemotherapy plan, and physical constitution.