Does gastric cancer surgery require gastrectomy? It depends on the condition

Whether or not a gastric cancer patient needs to have the stomach removed and how much to remove is determined by the doctor based on the patient's condition. It may be half, one-third, etc. Just accept the doctor's plan. The chances of gastric cancer patients recovering after surgery are relatively high. However, comprehensive treatment is still recommended: including surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy and traditional Chinese medicine treatment.

Gastric cancer is a malignant tumor of the digestive system, and ranks second in morbidity and mortality among all malignant tumors of the digestive system, posing a great threat to health. Tumor cells grow rapidly and can cause serious complications, such as obstruction, bleeding, and perforation of the digestive tract. After radical resection of gastric cancer, there is still a high recurrence and metastasis rate with strict, systematic adjuvant chemotherapy and other treatments, which can metastasize throughout the body and threaten the patient's life. So does gastric cancer surgery require gastrectomy?
If it is confirmed that the patient has gastric cancer, surgical treatment is generally required. The type of surgery required for gastric cancer is related to the location of the tumor and the early stage of the tumor. For patients with early gastric cancer, partial gastrectomy or resection of most of the stomach can be considered. For patients with advanced cancer, patients with huge tumors and more lymph node metastases, when resection of part of the stomach or resection of most of the stomach is no longer safe, then the entire stomach needs to be removed.
In addition, patients with gastric cancer also need to clear the lymph nodes in order to achieve a better treatment effect. Of course, in addition to surgical treatment, gastric cancer also requires chemotherapy for comprehensive treatment. Only in this way can a better treatment be achieved.
Whether or not to perform gastrectomy for gastric cancer surgery cannot be generalized. It also depends on the location of the cancer. If it is a large area of ​​gastric cancer, total gastrectomy is required, otherwise partial gastrectomy is acceptable. It depends on the patient's symptoms and the clinical stage, pathological stage, location, and lymph node metastasis of the tumor.
The total gastrectomy has been performed for advanced gastric cancer. The overall five-year survival rate after surgery is not particularly high. Pathological examination is required after surgery, and then the next treatment plan is formulated based on the results of the postoperative pathological examination. Generally, several cycles of chemotherapy are required. Then, based on the metastasis of lymph nodes and the invasion of tumors, it is decided whether to give radiotherapy. If the patient's financial conditions allow, targeted drug therapy can be combined at the same time.