My father has stomach cancer, is chemotherapy or Chinese medicine better? What kind of treatment is more favorable to life expectancy?

The prognosis of advanced metastatic gastric cancer is poor. At present, palliative chemotherapy + biological therapy can reduce the risk of death, improve the quality of life and prolong the survival period.

The chemotherapy is mainly based on various combinations of "5-FU (5-fluorouracil) + calcium folinate" regimen.

Combination chemotherapy programs commonly used in the treatment of gastric cancer include:

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

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

Adriamycin+Etoposide+Calcium Folinate+5-FU (repeated every 3 weeks)

Mycin+Etoposide+Cisplatin (repeated every 3 weeks)

Biological treatment of gastric cancer currently has a definite role in the clinic, such as shiitake mushroom polysaccharide, Yunzhi polysaccharide, OK-432 (which is a kind of streptococcal preparation) and so on. When chemotherapy is used together with mushroom polysaccharide or Yunzhi polysaccharide, mushroom polysaccharide can activate T-lymphocytes and NK-cells, and Yunzhi polysaccharide can activate macrophages and enhance phagocytosis, which are synergistic with chemotherapy; and the application of OK-432 at the same time of chemotherapy can enhance the anti-cancer effect. Japanese research shows that chemotherapy with biotherapy in the treatment of gastric cancer can improve the survival rate of patients for 3-5 years.