Anesthetic techniques and recurrence of breast cancer: unanswered questions | Zendy

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Anesthetic techniques and recurrence of breast cancer: unanswered questions

Author(s) -

Ryungsa Kim,

Takanori Kin

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

gland surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.643

H-Index - 22

eISSN - 2227-8575

pISSN - 2227-684X

DOI - 10.21037/gs.2019.12.20

Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , anesthetic , axillary lymph node dissection , modified radical mastectomy , surgery , cancer , mastectomy , general surgery , lymph node , sentinel lymph node

Over the last decade, a potential link between anesthetic techniques and the recurrence of breast cancer has been an important and controversial issue for anesthesiologists and breast surgeons. This controversy was instigated by a radical retrospective study, which reported that the anesthetic technique employed influenced the recurrence (and hence survival) of cancer in patients that underwent mastectomy with axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) (1).

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