title: Cancer surgery induces inflammation, immunosuppression and neo-angiogenesis, but is it influenced by analgesics?
abstract: Surgery remains a main part of the treatment of most solid tumors. Paradoxically, rapid disease progression may be a consequence of surgery in patients presenting with a dysregulated inflammatory response, and increased angiogenesis consequent to a suppressed antitumoral immune response. Physicians taking care of cancer patients should be aware of the important findings that indicate that analgesic techniques could play a role in these phenomena.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Anesthesiology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Patrice
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Forget
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Centre Hospitalier Wallonie-Picarde, Tournai, B-7500, Belgium.
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Simonet
authors.affiliation: Departments of Anesthesiology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: De Kock