Anesthesia and cancer recurrence: Is the balance of evidence shifting?

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 177-178

  Durieux, Marcel E ^a   Tiouririne, Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; OPIATE;

ANALGESIA; CANCER CELL; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EDITORIAL; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; HISTORY; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEMORY CELL; METASTASIS; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STOMACH CANCER; SUPPRESSOR GENE; SURGICAL STRESS; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MALE; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84899807132     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: 15328651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0000000000000094     Document Type: Editorial

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