Chemotherapy for advanced gastric cancer can control the rate of progression of the disease, but it cannot cure it; it can only maximize the patient’s survival time.
Patients with advanced gastric cancer are different, and whether or not chemotherapy works and whether or not a patient can undergo chemotherapy needs to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. The first time the patient was diagnosed, he or she had a problem with the lymph nodes in the neck or the liver, which is not amenable to surgery and can only be controlled by chemotherapy.
Some patients are in a very advanced state of gastric cancer or are already in a terminal state and are in a condition that is completely unsuitable for chemotherapy, in which case they can only be treated with supportive therapy, which can be very painful for the patient and does not help the disease, so other means can be used to reduce the patient’s pain and try to improve the quality of life.