What is the first choice for gastric cancer treatment?

Early lesions of gastric cancer are relatively limited, with no invasion of surrounding tissues and organs and no distant metastasis. Therefore, surgical treatment and radical resection are the first choice, which can be supplemented with chemotherapy after surgery. The preferred treatment option for gastric cancer is surgery, followed by postoperative pathology, follow-up treatment, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, etc. Early treatment has good effects and a high clinical cure rate. Patients are advised to go to a regular cancer hospital immediately. Early gastric cancer without lymph node metastasis can be treated endoscopically.

How is stomach cancer detected?

When a patient has symptoms of gastric cancer, if you want to go to the hospital for a detailed examination, the doctor may recommend that you do some chest CT or blood tests. Since the diagnosis of tumors mainly depends on histological examination, that is, pathology, it is most accurate to take tissue for pathological examination under gastroscopy. Gastric cancer is a malignant tumor that is mainly caused by long-term consumption of salty and smoked foods, but it is also related to family heredity.

Is gastrectomy for gastric cancer a total gastrectomy?

After total gastrectomy, patients need to eat small and frequent meals during the recovery period. In order to avoid reflux, try not to lie down after meals, because iron deficiency anemia is prone to occur due to iron absorption disorders after total gastrectomy, so it is necessary to increase the nutrition in the food, supplement iron-rich foods, and pay attention to regular blood routine checks. For gastric cancer patients, artificial feeding of the jejunum is required after gastric ulcer resection, and then as long as the engineering is consistent with the esophagus, recovery will be smooth. If the lesion is relatively small or benign tumor surgery is required, proximal gastrectomy can be performed, and total gastrectomy is not necessarily required.