Impact of Anesthesia Maintenance Methods on 5-year Survival After Surgery
Status:
Active, not recruiting
Trial end date:
2022-09-30
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Surgery is one of the major treatment methods for patients with solid organ cancer. And,
alone with the ageing process, more and more elderly patients undergo surgery for cancer.
Evidence emerges that choice of anesthetics, i.e., either inhalational or intravenous
anesthetics, may influence the outcome of elderly patients undergoing cancer surgery. From
the point of view of immune function after surgery and invasiveness of malignant tumor cells,
propofol intravenous anesthesia may be superior to inhalational anesthesia. However, the
clinical significance of these effects remains unclear. Retrospective studies indicated that
use of propofol intravenous anesthesia was associated higher long-term survival rate.
Prospective studies exploring the effect of anesthetic choice on long-term survival in cancer
surgery patients are urgently needed.