Early gastric cancer can be cured after standardized treatment, and the five-year survival rate is often used to indicate the cure rate.
Early gastric cancer refers to gastric cancer with lesions confined to the submucosal layer, its clinical manifestations are not obvious and nonspecific, and with the progression of the disease, it may cause discomfort and nausea after eating. If early gastric cancer is detected in time and treated in standardized way, its five-year survival rate is much higher than that of progressive gastric cancer, which can be as high as 80%.
The treatment of early gastric cancer is mainly surgery, which can be radical gastric cancer surgery, with lymph nodes cleared according to the situation, and can be combined with radiotherapy, which can be used for preoperative downstaging or preventing postoperative recurrence. Commonly used chemotherapy drugs are fluorouracil, oxaliplatin, etc. The drugs should be applied under the guidance of physicians.
Early gastric cancer can be cured if it is detected early and treated with standardized treatment, so it is recommended to have regular medical checkups for early detection and timely treatment to improve the prognosis.