A 88 years male patient died last night. He was suffered by advanced gastric cancer and couldn’t eat anything. He came from the big hospital where he was diagnosed as advanced gastric cancer and was recommended to operate. He was advised as follow , if he didn’t operate, the antrum ring was closed and couldn’t eat anything and would have much ascites. But he and his wife refused to operate. The docor of big hospital said to them to discharge or move another small
hospital to care without operation or anticancer drugs. When he came to our hospital his gastric antrum ring was completely obstructed and his abdomen was filled with much ascites. As he had missed the chance of operation when he was in the big hospital, there were any method of therapy. We gave him drop infusion of water and electrolytes, and drainaged the juices from obstructed stomach using tube.
his blood pressure went down. They hoped natural causes, and died quietly last night. I didn’t ask them why they refused to operate . Usually if the patient had operation and hadn’t obstruction of antrum ring, he might live more long life . I lamented that he refused the operation, because I knew many patients who were operated even advanced cancer had been alive healthy long lives.