Patients with advanced gastric cancer who cannot eat can be fed nasally or through intravenous supplementation.
Surgery is not recommended for patients with advanced gastric cancer because even with surgery, survival will not be significantly extended. The patient’s physical condition is too poor to tolerate surgery, so conservative treatment is recommended for patients with advanced gastric cancer, such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, and other treatments. The patient’s survival can be prolonged through a combination of treatment methods.
Patients with advanced gastric cancer have experienced significant tumor enlargement and direct spread of adjacent organs and metastasis of lymph nodes, so they will not be able to eat normally and will experience significant abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and other gastrointestinal symptoms. The patient needs to actively take the nasal feeding method and apply intravenous infusion method to supplement nutrition to ensure that the body needs daily calories and energy, water, electrolytes, so as to maintain the normal body metabolism, to achieve the purpose of improving the patient’s quality of life and prolonging the patient’s life.