Anesthesia and Circulating Tumor Cells in Breast Cancer

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Category Primary study
Registry of Trialsclinicaltrials.gov
Year 2014
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.
Epistemonikos ID: 114b2c120cc5cf3f7b82b2e3f81e12b6b1aa9171
First added on: May 11, 2024