Can Anesthetic Technique for Primary Breast Cancer Surgery Affect Recurrence or Metastasis?

Can anesthetic technique for primary breast cancer surgery affect recurrence or metastasis?

BACKGROUND Regional anesthesia is known to prevent or attenuate the surgical stress response; therefore, inhibiting surgical stress by paravertebral anesthesia might attenuate perioperative factors that enhance tumor growth and spread. The authors hypothesized that breast cancer patients undergoing surgery with paravertebral anesthesia and analgesia combined with general anesthesia have a lower...

Can anaesthetic and analgesic techniques affect cancer recurrence or metastasis?

Cancer is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and the ratio of incidence is increasing. Mortality usually results from recurrence or metastases. Surgical removal of the primary tumour is the mainstay of treatment, but this is associated with inadvertent dispersal of neoplastic cells into the blood and lymphatic systems. The fate of the dispersed cells depends on the balance of ...

Anesthetic Techniques and Cancer Recurrence after Surgery

Many of the most common anesthetics are used in surgical oncology, yet effects on cancer cells are still not known. Anesthesia technique could differentially affect cancer recurrence in oncologic patients undergoing surgery, due to immunosuppression, stimulation of angiogenesis, and dissemination of residual cancer cells. Data support the use of intravenous anesthetics, such as propofol anesthe...

Anesthetic technique for radical prostatectomy surgery affects cancer recurrence: a retrospective analysis.

BACKGROUND Regional anesthesia and analgesia attenuate or prevent perioperative factors that favor minimal residual disease after removal of the primary carcinoma. Therefore, the authors evaluated prostate cancer recurrence in patients who received either general anesthesia with epidural anesthesia/analgesia or general anesthesia with postoperative opioid analgesia. METHODS In a retrospective...

An Update on Existing Ongoing Prospective Trials Evaluating the Effect of Anesthetic and Analgesic Techniques During Primary Cancer Surgery on Cancer Recurrence or Metastasis.