How long you can live with a cancerous gastric ulcer should depend on your condition.
If the cancerous gastric ulcer occurs in the early stages of the tumor, is detected in a timely manner, is not combined with other complications, and has no distant metastases. The tumor stage is also early, and the depth of tumor infiltration is mainly limited to the superficial mucosa, so the relative survival time is longer.
Survival time is also very much related to the availability of aggressive treatment. In the early stages, direct surgical eradication with adjuvant radiotherapy or chemotherapy is recommended. The 5-year survival rate is relatively high after treatment, and even 10 years after surgery is not a problem for some patients.
For patients with more severe disease, especially if the malignant tumor has invaded the submucosa of the stomach and in severe cases has metastasized to the lymph nodes or blood system. Such patients have a relatively short survival time, which may be as short as three months or even less than a month in severe cases. Not many patients who can be treated aggressively survive to a year.
Therefore, it is recommended that patients with cancerous gastric ulcers should be treated symptomatically and early detection and treatment to maximize survival time.