Anesthesia and Circulating Tumor Cells in Breast Cancer
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2018-04-01
Target enrollment:
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Summary
Serious concern about the role of anesthesia in tumor recurrence has considerably risen over
years, but the lack of surrogate markers for tumor spreading made trials addressing this
issue difficult to realize. In breast cancer patients CTC positivity has been recently
recognized as an independent prognostic factor. In this respect, we postulated that in a
first step changes in the number of CTC after general anesthesia would help to determine the
effect of anesthesia on this tumor marker.