Stent placement in advanced esophageal cancer can last for about six months in most cases, depending on a combination of aspects.
Patients with advanced esophageal cancer, due to their extremely debilitating condition, can no longer be treated surgically and can only be treated palliatively and conservatively. Placing a stent in the esophageal cancer site can restore esophageal distention and can solve the problem of difficulty in eating. It can increase the patient’s nutrition and improve immune function.
But it is also not too ideal a treatment because the opportunity for surgery is lost, the cancer cannot be completely cured, and the cancer cells grow and develop faster and can metastasize extensively.