How long can you live after esophageal cancer stent surgery

If a patient has esophageal cancer, how long can he live after undergoing esophageal cancer stent surgery? This is a question that many patients and their families are concerned about. In fact, the purpose of esophageal stent surgery is to allow the patient to eat normally. How long the patient can survive now also depends on the treatment situation, the disease condition and the patient's physical condition.

Endovascular stent surgery is a minimally invasive surgical procedure that uses advanced technology and instruments to treat circulatory system disorders such as blood vessel blockage or damage caused by plaque (fat deposits, calcium deposits, and scar tissue) that build up inside the arteries, a condition called atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). The surgeon may recommend placing an endovascular stent, a small metal mesh tube called a stent by the surgeon, in the affected artery. The procedure may be performed at the same time as cleaning or repairing the artery. The dual procedure opens, widens, and supports the artery wall to improve blood flow in the long term and reduce the risk of heart attack or stroke. In an endovascular stent procedure (endovascular, intravascular, and intravascular), all of the work the surgeon does is inside the blood vessel. Nearly all large and medium-sized vessels in the body's vascular system can be accessed from the intravascular side. This fact has contributed to the rapid growth of endovascular stent surgery.

Purpose

The goal of an endovascular stent procedure is to improve or restore the flow of blood and oxygen throughout the body, a process called coronary revascularization. Endovascular stent procedures are most often used to correct narrowing in large and medium-sized arteries that are blocked by plaque. Stents have been used in the coronary arteries, carotid arteries, and renal (kidney) or biliary (gall bladder) arteries. They are rarely used in small arteries in the legs, for example, or in other small blood vessels in the body.

Endovascular stenting is also the latest treatment for such urgent vascular events as abdominal or thoracic (related to the chest and lungs) aortic aneurysms. Aortic aneurysms are life-threatening bulges in the wall of the aorta, the body's largest artery, usually the result of progressive atherosclerosis.

Demographic

Candidates for endovascular stenting are patients with atherosclerosis who are at high risk for heart attack and stroke. Heart disease and stroke are the leading causes of death and disability in men and women in the United States. People most at risk have high blood pressure and high cholesterol and sometimes diabetes. Often, these people may also smoke, be overweight, and have a close relative who has had heart disease or coronary artery disease or a stroke. More than 700,000 people undergo stenting procedures each year to clear blockages in their coronary arteries. Abdominal aortic aneurysms are the 13th leading cause of death in the United States, primarily in people over the age of 67. More than 190,000 aortic aneurysms are diagnosed each year, and 450,000 of them undergo surgery. Despite the increasing use of stenting, most aneurysms are treated with traditional open surgery.

For this type of esophageal stent placement, generally half a month after the operation, you should eat a variety of foods according to the principle of eating small and frequent meals, mainly semi-liquid foods. Two months after the operation, you can basically resume your normal diet, 3-4 meals a day, and it is advisable to choose soft foods. You cannot lie down immediately after eating, because the cardia has been removed, which may cause food or gastric juice reflux. It is best to take a 40-minute walk before lying down to rest. The diet should be light, highly nutritious and easily digestible, and avoid eating irritating foods such as raw garlic, chili peppers, pepper, etc. Quit smoking and drinking. You can drink a small amount of boiled water or light salt water after a meal to dilute the food and mucus in the esophagus and prevent esophageal mucosal damage and edema.

Suggestions: First of all, patients should maintain a good attitude. Then, according to their own condition, a combined treatment model can be adopted. For many early cancer patients, it can have a very obvious therapeutic effect, and patients in the middle and late stages can also prolong their life span. Therefore, cancer is not terrible. What is terrible is how we face it. A positive and optimistic attitude will help us defeat the disease. We should also consider the benefits of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, but because the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy are large and can cause great harm to the body, we can also combine traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment to carry out symptomatic treatment during radiotherapy and chemotherapy, which will also have very good results.