There is no specific time frame for how long you can live after a total gastrectomy, it may be a few months, six months, or a year or two, and some can achieve a cure and long-term survival.
There is no specific time frame for how long you can live after a total gastrectomy.
If you can have a radical gastrectomy for gastric cancer, it is usually early to mid-stage, and the prognosis for early to mid-stage gastric cancer is still relatively good.
Of course, it also depends on the size of the tumor, whether there are lymph node metastases and the number of lymph node metastases, as well as the type of pathology of the gastric cancer, such as Indolent cell carcinoma, which is more malignant and not sensitive to chemotherapy, and even after total gastrectomy survival usually does not exceed five years, with recurrence or distant metastases occurring within a year or two.
In addition to the patient’s physical condition, if the patient is in poor health and has more underlying disease, the patient is unable to tolerate chemotherapy, plus surgery is more devastating to the patient, and even with surgery, the survival period may be shorter, some surviving six months, some surviving only two or three months. If the patient’s own health is already very good, the family in the postoperative diet care and daily life care are in place, the patient will also survive for a long time. The actual length of time a patient lives after a total gastrectomy needs to be judged based on the patient’s overall condition.