Cancer remains the leading cause of death worldwide with close to 10 million deaths
reported annually. Due to growth of the advanced age cohort in our population, it is …

Simple Summary Pain is a worrisome symptom that 60–80% of patients with cancer
experience chronically. In the last twenty years, immunological and pain research have …

Background Thoracic epidural analgesia (TEA) has been suggested to improve survival
after curative surgery for colorectal cancer compared with systemic opioid analgesia. The …

Cancers of epithelial origin such as breast, prostate, cervical, gastric, colon and lung cancer
account for a large proportion of deaths worldwide. Better treatment of metastasis, the main …

Background During colorectal cancer surgery, the immune-modulating effects of inhalation
anaesthesia may create a favourable environment for metastasis formation, leading to …

Lidocaine, one of the most commonly used local anesthetics during surgery, has been
reported to suppress cancer cell growth via blocking voltage‐gated sodium channels …

Background: Surgery is the main curative treatment for colorectal cancer. Yet the
immunologic and humoral response to surgery may facilitate progression of micro …

Voltage-gated sodium (Na V) channels, initially characterized in excitable cells, have been
shown to be aberrantly expressed in non-excitable cancer tissues and cells from epithelial …

Simple Summary As a significant knowledge gap exists on the effect of opioid-free
anesthesia on outcomes of cancer patients receiving surgery, we conducted a systematic …

Objective To investigate the effect of volatile anesthetics on the rates of postoperative
myocardial infarction (MI) and cardiac death after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) …