Is surgery advisable for abdomen cancer?
Patient: Hi, My father is suffering from Stomach Cancer. We came to know about this a month ago. Doctors here are suggesting for the operation. As my father's age is 67 and he have diabetes from last 10 years and recently BP is there. We are thinking whether to go for the surgery or not? Is there any better treatment for this cancer apart from surgery? Please help us to take the decesion. If you can provide us the email address, I can send you the scanned copy of the reports. Please give mthe phone no, so that I can better explai. Please help us sir...Thanks in advance... Doctor: Hello! Good Day!  Primary treatment  for Gastric/Stomach cancer is still resection/surgery, especially for early stage cancers.  Tumor needs to be removed in order to control the source, in order for it not to go anywhere else in the body.  However, for locally advanced Gastric cancer, in other words unresectable or bulky tumors, chemo and radiation therapy is will be the initial treatment, followed by a resection, if chemo/radiation will be able to decrease the tumor size and converted it to a resectable tumor.  For more advanced cancers (Stage IV/ with distant metastasis), chemo/radiation plus other palliative treatments will suffice.