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Treatment of Stomach Cancer

Before any treatment stomach cancer needs further evaluation for proper staging of the disease. This requires endoscopic assessment, tissue biopsy and CT scan of the abdomen. Generally treatment of stomach cancer consist of surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy depending on the stage of the disease.

  1. Endoscopic resection. In the early stages stomach cancer can be treated with. However majority of patient may require surgery that entails resection of no less than two third of the stomach or all of it. This will also include all the lymphatic tissue adjacent to the stomach. If the cancer is in advanced stage rarely surgery will be required accept to palliate the symptom of obstruction and this is no longer a curative surgery.
  2. Radiotherapy for stomach cancer uses high radiation to kill the cancer cells. Radiotherapy can be used preoperatively to downsize the tumor before surgery can be done. This is called neoadjuvant radiotherapy. Radiotherapy can also be given postoperatively to kill any residual cancer cells. This type of treatment is often combined with chemotherapy.

  3. Chemotherapy is used either before or after the surgery depending of the staging of the cancer. Radiotherapy is usually added to chemotherapy after surgery for a locally advanced stomach cancer

  4. Palliative treatment. If the cancer has already spread to other places which means it is in the last stage, then only this treatment can be given to the patient. That is, treatment to reduce the symptoms faced by the patient.

Updated:: 05/11/2021 []

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