Cancer is a growing global burden; there were an estimated 18 million new cancer
diagnoses worldwide in 2020. Excisional surgery remains one of the main treatments for …

Simple Summary Opioids are one of the therapeutic and palliative options for breast cancer,
a tumor with a strong epidemiological impact. Studies have been extensively reported in the …

Background The impact of opioid analgesic use before cancer diagnosis on survival in
patients with chronic pain is unclear. Therefore, we designed a propensity score-matched …

Background Opioids have been linked to worse oncologic outcomes in surgical patients.
Studies in certain cancer types have identified associations between survival and intra …

Background Intravenous lidocaine has been postulated to improve long-term survival after
surgery for pancreatic cancer through anti-inflammatory effects, anti-tumour effects, or both …

Background Several retrospective studies using administrative or single-center data have
failed to show any difference between general anesthesia using propofol versus inhaled …

Background Opioid-induced immunomodulation may be important in colon
adenocarcinoma, where tumour DNA mismatch repair (MMR) can determine the level of …

Cao and colleagues present a follow-up analysis of a previous RCT among> 1200 older
adults (mean age 72 yr) undergoing cancer surgery, originally designed to evaluate the …

Technological advancement, data democratisation, and decreasing costs have led to a
revolution in molecular biology in which the entire set of DNA, RNA, proteins, and various …

Breast cancer is a high-risk disease with a high mortality rate among women. Chemotherapy
plays an important role in the treatment of breast cancer. However, chemotherapy eventually …