The effect of anesthetic technique on survival in human cancers: a meta-analysis of retrospective and prospective studies.

Animal models have shown that regional anesthesia (combined with or without general anesthesia) would attenuate the surgical stress response by preserving immune function and result in better long-term outcome. In order to test the hypothesis that cancer patients who had surgery with epidural anesth...

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Main Authors: Wan-Kun Chen, Chang-Hong Miao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3577858?pdf=render