Purpose:To evaluate the clinical value of palliative resection in advanced gastric cancer.Methods:Retrospective analysis the results in 35 patients with stage Ⅳ gastric cancer from 1990 to 1997. There were 18 cases in resection group and 17 cases in no resection group.Results:The survival rate and the postoperative life quality of the patients with advanced gastric cancer in resection group were higher than that of no resection group ( P =0 0278 and P