Methods We retrospectively reviewed data from a prospective institutional oncologic
database on 929 patients treated with RP by a single surgeon from 1999-2008. Spinal …

Background Regional anesthesia and analgesia attenuate or prevent perioperative factors
that favor minimal residual disease after removal of the primary carcinoma. Therefore, the …

Introduction Recent data suggest that using additional neuroaxial anaesthesia during
oncological surgery is associated with favourable recurrence-free survival, when compared …

Background Recently published studies suggest that the anesthetic technique used during
oncologic surgery affects cancer recurrence. To evaluate the effect of anesthetic technique …

Background Recent studies suggest that anesthetic technique during radical prostatectomy
for prostate cancer may affect recurrence or progression. This association has previously …

Background The potential impact of intraoperative analgesics on oncological outcome after
radical prostatectomy is debated. Some investigators have suggested that use of opioids …

BACKGROUND: The use of regional anesthesia for cancer surgery has been associated
with improved oncologic outcomes. One of the proposed mechanisms is a reduction in the …

Objectives To compare the effect of epidural and general anesthesia on thepostoperative
course and complication rate in patients undergoing radical prostatectomy. Methods Ninety …

Aims: To determine whether the use neuraxial anesthesia/analgesia is associated with
longer biochemical recurrence-free survival (BRFS) and overall survival (OS) after radical …

Prostate cancer is the most common malignancy in men with approximately 190,000 new
cases per year that kill close to 27,000 people annually in the United States alone. 1 As with …