Surgery for Stomach Cancer
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Stomach Cancer Treatment: Surgery
Surgery is one of the oldest and most effective means of treating certain types of stomach cancer. Surgery may be recommended as a stomach cancer treatment for you based on your stomach cancer's stage, the location of your tumors and/or metastases, as well as a variety of other factors.
Surgery can also play an important role in stomach cancer staging and diagnosis, helping our cancer doctors to understand exactly where and how it occurs so we can best target treatment to those areas. At Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), our expert surgeons and surgical oncologists are skilled in performing sophisticated surgical techniques to help detect and eradicate stomach cancer from your body.
Surgery for stomach cancer may be performed to accomplish one or more of these treatment goals: preventative (or prophylactic) surgery; diagnostic surgery; staging surgery; curative surgery; debulking (or cytoreductive) surgery; palliative surgery; supportive surgery; and, restorative (or reconstructive) surgery.
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