Relationship between Anesthesia and Tumor: Can the Anesthesia affect the Prognosis of the Tumor?

Abstract

Nowadays, cancer is still one of the most common reasons of death in the world. Surgery as the main treatment for some potentially treatable solid tumors. However, tumor metastasis is the most important cause of death in patients with these tumors. Clinical studies have found that surgery is an influence factor on tumor metastasis. In the perioperative period, the small residual lesions can be killed by the immune system, while it may also escape from the immune attack and then becoming the source of tumor metastasis and recurrence. Anesthesia covers the whole perioperative period, the effect on the patient's immune function mainly in the perioperative period. In recent years, the potential impact of anesthesia and some factors on the long-term prognosis of patients after resection of tumor has been paid more and more attention.