How long can you live with advanced gastric cancer

For advanced gastric cancer, if the patient receives standardized and reasonable treatment, there will generally be individual differences. Clinically, the five-year survival rate is used as a statistic to measure the patient's quality of life and life span. Generally speaking, the five-year survival rate of stage I gastric cancer, that is, early gastric cancer, is 82% to 95%; the advanced stage of gastric cancer refers to the stage when the condition of gastric cancer has significantly worsened after the early and latent periods. If not treated in time or treated improperly, it will seriously threaten the patient's life. For patients with advanced cancer, the three-year survival rate is about 50%, and the specific survival period is related to the patient's condition and treatment.

What is the color of stool for gastric cancer?

Patients with gastric cancer often have black stools, which is caused by bleeding caused by the rupture of gastric malignant tumors during proliferation or invasion of the stomach wall. The blood is digested by itself and mixed with the stool. The stool color of patients with gastric cancer is usually black because it contains a lot of blood, and the stool will be dry and hardened. If patients with gastric cancer have upper gastrointestinal bleeding, the stool will be tarry.

What complications will occur after gastric cancer surgery?

Gastric cancer patients may experience local pain, bleeding, infection, acid reflux, nausea and vomiting, abdominal distension, etc. after surgery. Therefore, after surgery, especially within 72 hours after surgery, patients should be closely observed for possible clinical symptoms, communicate with the attending physician in a timely manner, and take symptomatic treatment to minimize postoperative complications. Gastric cancer patients may experience complications such as oral fistula, abdominal infection, bleeding, intestinal adhesions, intestinal obstruction, abdominal effusion, incision infection, non-healing incision, hypoproteinemia, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular accidents after surgery. The specific complications are determined by the patient's own physical condition and related surgeries. Potential complications for gastric cancer patients include: tumor recurrence and metastasis, which can be manifested as local anastomotic recurrence or lymph node, abdominal metastasis and remote organ metastasis.