Father got gastric cancer, which is better, chemotherapy or traditional Chinese medicine? How to treat is more beneficial to life?

The prognosis of advanced metastatic gastric cancer is poor. At present, palliative chemotherapy plus biotherapy can reduce the risk of death, improve the quality of life and prolong the survival time.

Its chemotherapy is mainly combined chemotherapy based on the scheme of "5-FU(5- fluorouracil)+calcium folinate".

The commonly used combined chemotherapy schemes for the treatment of gastric cancer are:

5-FU+ Adriamycin+Mitomycin (repeated every 3 or 4 weeks)

5-FU+ Adriamycin+Cisplatin (repeated every 3 weeks)

Etoposide+calcium folinate +5-FU (repeated every 3 weeks)

Mycomycin+etoposide+cisplatin (repeated every 3 weeks)

At present, lentinan, Coriolus versicolor polysaccharide and OK-432 (a streptococcus preparation) have positive effects in the clinical treatment of gastric cancer. When chemotherapy is combined with lentinan or Coriolus versicolor polysaccharide, lentinan can activate T lymphocytes and NK cells, and Coriolus versicolor polysaccharide can activate macrophages and enhance phagocytosis, which has a synergistic effect with chemotherapy. Chemotherapy combined with OK-432 can enhance the anti-cancer effect. Japanese research shows that chemotherapy combined with biotherapy can improve the 3-5 year survival rate of patients with gastric cancer.