What will happen if gastric cancer refuses chemotherapy

For patients with gastric cancer, except for carcinoma in situ and very early gastric cancer surgery, there is no chemotherapy regimen. For other types or other stages of gastric cancer, chemotherapy should be appropriately used according to the nature of the pathology. Resolutely not using chemotherapy may lead to poor overall treatment effects for gastric cancer. If gastric cancer patients resolutely refuse to accept chemotherapy, the result is only part of the treatment process, and the cancer cells may still become active again or relapse and metastasize earlier. The result of resolutely not accepting chemotherapy for gastric cancer should be diagnosed in combination with the severity of the gastric cancer patient.

How is stomach cancer treated?

When we find the disease relatively early under endoscopy, only invading the muscle layer, and without lymph node metastasis, we use minimally invasive surgery to do regional lymph node cleansing and subtotal gastrectomy, which is very effective in treating gastric cancer. If the patient has extensive metastasis and progression, it depends on drugs, chemotherapy drugs, targeted drugs, anti-angiogenic drugs and other drugs. If immunotherapy is effective, the patient can also relieve or completely control the lesions. Drug control is required for long-term survival, local lesions can survive for a long time, and efforts to control the patient's lesions can allow the patient to survive for a long time. Gastric cancer is the most common malignant tumor in the stomach.

What are the symptoms of advanced gastric cancer? How long can you live with it?

Gastric cancer patients usually do not have any clinical symptoms, usually not in the advanced stage. Patients are advised to undergo surgical resection in a timely manner to clarify the pathological diagnosis. The main symptoms of patients with advanced gastric cancer are abdominal pain, bloating, constipation, nausea, vomiting, intestinal obstruction, etc. Advanced gastric cancer may have no symptoms.