How long does gastric cancer surgery take? Normally 2-3 hours

The duration of gastric cancer surgery cannot be generalized, and is closely related to the extent of the lesion, the difficulty of the surgery, the surgical method, the doctor's experience, etc. Generally speaking, traditional radical gastrectomy takes about 2-6 hours; laparoscopic radical gastrectomy is a new surgical method that has emerged in recent years. The operation takes about 2-3 hours, which is longer than traditional radical gastrectomy, but has the advantages of less pain after surgery and faster recovery.

Precancerous lesions and precancerous diseases: Atypical epithelial hyperplasia and intestinal metaplasia of gastric mucosal epithelium are more likely to become cancerous than normal gastric mucosa or other gastric mucosal lesions, so they have attracted the attention of researchers. Precancerous disease is a clinical concept, which means that certain diseases have a higher chance of developing gastric cancer, such as gastric polyps and gastric adenomatous polyps. When the diameter of multiple polyps is greater than 2 cm, the possibility of malignant transformation is high. So how long does gastric cancer surgery take?
The specific time of gastric cancer surgery depends on the patient's own condition. It is not possible to determine the specific treatment time simply based on what the patient says. Surgery alone is not enough to treat gastric cancer. Surgery can only remove solid tumors visible to the naked eye. It cannot prevent the metastasis of cancer cells, nor can it eliminate cancer cells in the blood. Many patients relapse after surgery for this reason. Therefore, Chinese medicine treatment must be combined as soon as possible after surgery to achieve both symptomatic and root treatment. Patients need to receive symptomatic treatment of Chinese medicine at the same time as surgery to prevent recurrence and metastasis of the disease.
The stomach is an important digestive organ in the human body, so we must pay attention to the protection of the stomach in our daily life. Nowadays, many people do not pay attention to the maintenance, which leads to stomach diseases, and gastric cancer is a common and dangerous disease. This disease also requires a lot of time in surgical treatment.
Generally speaking, if the patient with gastric cancer is an older person, the risk of gastric cancer surgery is relatively high and the time required will be longer, usually 6 to 9 hours. This is because the situation of each patient is different. Surgery requires many things to be done, and if the patient's physical condition is poor, other examinations will be required, so it will take longer.
Gastric cancer is a disease that needs timely treatment. If it is not treated in time and allowed to develop, it will have a particularly great impact on the patient, and in severe cases it will even put the patient at risk of death. If the patient with gastric cancer is in good physical condition, timely surgical treatment will generally be enough in about 6 hours. If the patient is in poor physical condition, or if some other symptoms occur during the process, these situations need to be dealt with in a timely manner, which will waste a lot of time during the treatment process, so the time may be longer.