Background Recently published studies suggest that the anesthetic technique used during
oncologic surgery affects cancer recurrence. To evaluate the effect of anesthetic technique
on disease progression and long-term survival, we compared patients receiving general
anesthesia plus intraoperative and postoperative thoracic epidural analgesia with patients
receiving general anesthesia alone undergoing open retropubic radical prostatectomy with
extended pelvic lymph node dissection. Methods Two sequential series were studied …