Su Riman, a young dancer, died of stomach cancer. How high is the mortality rate of gastric cancer? First of all, as long as gastric cancer is found early and treated by systematic and regular surgery, the five-year survival rate is still relatively high. However, in some remote and backward rural areas, people do not pay attention to physical examination and the appearance of their own symptoms, which leads to the discovery of gastric cancer at an advanced stage. Here is a case that impressed me deeply. This happened the year before last. A mature man in his forties came to our hospital. The patient has a long history of drinking and smoking, and has long-term symptoms such as acid regurgitation, belching and indigestion. My teacher asked the patient to do gastroscopy. Finally, the result of gastroscopy was advanced gastric cancer, and pathological biopsy was confirmed as gastric malignant tumor. Because it is in a backward rural area, I didn't tell the patient about my illness.

When the patient's abdominal cavity was opened, we saw dense metastases on the patient's colon and peritoneum. As we all know, the patient's time is running out. After informing the patient's family about the illness, the family asked to continue subtotal gastrectomy. When my teacher and I took out the removed stomach and explained the illness to the patient's mother, I only saw the patient's mother's tears. After the operation, the patient recovered well. One day, after chemotherapy and other adjuvant treatments, we went to make rounds. He said, doctor, I can eat two bowls of noodles at a time. Thank you. But as we all know, this is only temporary, and soon his condition will take a turn for the worse. About three months later, the patient recovered well, his face was shiny, and he couldn't see that he had surgery and got gastric cancer.

But this situation lasted for more than a month. Six months later, I saw him again. I can't believe it's the same person. How can I describe it? Skinny, gaunt eyes, conveying too much disappointment. He just said, doctor, I am in pain. Give me a better medicine. At this time, he didn't know he had cancer. What can we doctors say, we can only watch a life being swallowed up by cancer bit by bit, and there is no way. The patient lived for about seven months after the operation. In these seven months, he experienced ups and downs, and finally left with regret. Therefore, it is very important to have good habits in life and actively check when symptoms appear.