One of the aspects that cannot be neglected in the treatment of patients with advanced gastric cancer is nursing work, and good nursing work is very helpful to the treatment of gastric cancer and to reduce the pain of gastric cancer patients. How to take care of gastric cancer 1. Drug pain relief In practice, we firstly assess the pain level and give analgesic drugs according to medical prescription according to the three-level pain relief principle, and pay attention to the pain relief effect and drug side effects, and reduce or stop the drug in time when abnormalities are found. When patients have strong pain reaction, sedative drugs will be added appropriately. 2.Non-drug pain relief method Let patients listen to music, sit in meditation and perform rhythmic deep breathing, massage and apply heat to painful parts, and increase recreational activities to distract their attention, all of which can help patients produce several positive physiological changes and enhance the pain relief effect. Local rubbing with peppermint oil, camphor tincture, ice chips, etc. to relieve local pain. 3.Psychological care pain often varies from entry to entry, and the degree of pain is often related to people’s recollection of past experiences, analysis of pain causes, understanding of situations, degree of attention, anticipation of consequences and other mental activities, so pain is quite random and variable. Most of the cancer patients have different degrees of negative psychological emotions such as fear, anxiety, pessimism and disappointment, and individual patients even have light thoughts of life. Therefore, it is necessary to take the following targeted psychological care measures. 4.Strengthen basic nursing Late stage gastric cancer patients are in general failure and the functions of various organs are declining one after another, and most of them lose the ability to take care of themselves. It is necessary to strengthen basic nursing care, pay attention to the management of patients’ skin, oral cavity, genitourinary tract and respiratory tract, and prevent the occurrence of various complications. Try to create a quiet, comfortable and painless environment for patients, so as to improve their tolerance to pain. Causes of pain in advanced gastric cancer 1. Cancer tumor compresses, occludes or infiltrates arterioles and/or lymphatic vessels. This is the cause of advanced gastric cancer pain that we know. 2.Psychological factors. This cause of advanced gastric cancer pain is more common. 3.Invasion of bones by cancer tumor. This also belongs to the causes of advanced gastric cancer pain. 4. Cancer tumor infiltrates or compresses nerves. This is one of the causes of advanced gastric cancer pain. 5. Damage to body surface nerves and vegetative nerves after surgery causes new pain. This cause of advanced gastric cancer pain is more obvious.