Stomach Cancer Treatment

Stomach cancer continues to become more treatable thanks to improvements in staging the disease, along with advances in surgical technology and expanding recognition of the different types of gastric cancer. And as doctors evaluate and treat more people with early-stage tumors, increasing numbers of people are surviving stomach cancer.

Surgery (gastrectomy) is the most common treatment approach, especially when the illness is at an early stage. For many people with gastric cancer, minimally invasive surgical techniques provide the best option since they tend to lead to fewer complications, shorter recovery times, less need for pain relief, and reduced risk that the cancer will return compared with open surgeries.