Anesthesia technique may reduce breast cancer recurrence, death
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 20:30
in Health & Medicine
Breast cancer patients who received the combination of a nerve block with general anesthesia for their breast cancer surgery had less cancer recurrence and were three times less likely to die than those who received only general anesthesia. Additionally, patients who received the nerve block needed less opioid pain relief from drugs such as fentanyl and oxycodone.