Surgical resection is an important avenue for cancer treatment, which, in most cases, can effectively alleviate the patient symptoms. However, accumulating evidence has documented that surgical resection potentially enhances metastatic seeding of tumor cells. In this review, we revisit the literature on surgical stress, and outline the mechanisms by which surgical stress, including ischemia/reperfusion injury, activation of sympathetic nervous system, inflammation, systemically hypercoagulable state, immune suppression and effects of anesthetic agents, promotes tumor metastasis. We also propose preventive strategies or resolution of tumor metastasis caused by surgical stress.
Surgical stress and cancer progression: the twisted tango
Zhiwei Chen,Peidong Zhang,Ya Xu,Jiahui Yan,Zixuan Liu,W. Lau,Bonnie Lau,Ying Li,Xia Zhao,Yuquan Wei,Shengtao Zhou
Published 2019 in Molecular Cancer
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- Publication year
2019
- Venue
Molecular Cancer
- Publication date
2019-09-02
- Fields of study
Biology, Medicine
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Semantic Scholar, PubMed
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