Julia Dubowitz, Jonathan Hiller, Bernhard Riedel
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Surgery remains integral to treating solid cancers. However, the surgical stress response, characterized by physiologic perturbation of the adrenergic, inflammatory, and immune systems, may promote procancerous pathways. Anesthetic technique per se may attenuate/enhance these pathways and thereby could be implicated in long-term cancer outcomes. RECENT FINDINGS: To date, clinical studies have predominantly been retrospective and underpowered and, thus limit meaningful conclusions...
June 1, 2021: Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology