How to treat gastric cancer after metastasis

How to treat gastric cancer metastasis?

1. If gastric cancer metastasizes to the liver, timely examination should be carried out. It is recommended to surgically remove the liver tumor to reduce the patient's tumor burden. If chemotherapy is not desired, Chinese medicine can also be used for treatment to promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, soften tumors and disperse nodules. It is recommended that patients and doctors communicate more to confirm the appropriate treatment plan. Please pay more attention to the patient's diet and nutritional supplements and work and rest schedule, and keep the patient optimistic and open-minded, which will help with treatment.

2. After gastric cancer metastasizes, systemic treatment is the first choice. Patients can be given chemotherapy. If the patient's gene test is HER-2 positive, chemotherapy plus trastuzumab treatment can also be used. Apatinib mesylate, a second-line anti-tumor angiogenesis targeted drug, can also be sought. Advanced gastric cancer requires chemotherapy or radiotherapy first, and after the condition stabilizes, appropriate surgical treatment can be selected based on the patient's physical condition.

How to treat mid-stage gastric cancer?

The cost of treating mid-stage gastric cancer depends on how the patient is treated. If surgery is possible, the cost is around 40,000 to 50,000 yuan. Secondly, postoperative pathological staging generally requires six courses of chemotherapy, and the conventional cost of chemotherapy is around 60,000 yuan. If the patient takes targeted drugs combined with chemotherapy, targeted drugs need to be used in combination, which generally costs around 30,000 yuan.

The specific surgical method and time can be determined according to the specific situation of gastric cancer. If there is metastasis to other parts of the body or lymph node metastasis before surgery and it cannot be resected in the first stage, adjuvant chemotherapy can be performed first. After 3 cycles of adjuvant chemotherapy, it will be evaluated whether surgery is possible. If surgery is possible, it is recommended to try.

If gastric cancer is in the middle stage, it generally requires comprehensive treatment. First, treatment methods such as surgery are selected based on the patient's physical condition and specific pathological stage.