Type of anaesthesia during cancer surgery and cancer recurrence

BMJ

Volumn 342, Issue 7800, 2011, Pages 718-

  Tsui, B C H ^a   Green, J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; OPIATE;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; EDITORIAL; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SURGICAL STRESS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ANESTHESIA; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79953278313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d1605     Document Type: Editorial

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