Research Progress on Postoperative Pain Management in Patients with Gastric Cancer

Gastric cancer is a malignant tumor disease with a relatively high incidence rate. Early-stage patients have no specific manifestations, while advancy-stage patients will be the most vulnerable to gastric cancer. Early-stage patients have no specific manifestations, while advancy-stage patients will be accompanied by severe cancer pain, a significant decline in quality of life, and the survival rate remains low after treatment. With the continuous development of nursing concepts in recent years, how to reduce the degree of cancer pain of terminally ill cancer patients, alleviate their psychological suffering, and help them face death correctly has become a new research direction. This article reviews the research progress of postoperative pain management for patients with gastric cancer in recent years, including the importance of postoperative pain management, common methods of postoperative pain management, and factors affecting postoperative pain, aiming to provide reference and guidance for further alleviating postoperative pain of gastric cancer and improving the quality of life of patients with gastric cancer in the future.