Effects of Anesthetic Methods on Hepatic Cancer Cell Malignancy

Numerous studies found that anesthetic methods can influence the recurrence of tumor and the overall survival of patients after primary cancer surgery. Radiofrequency (RF) ablation is now widely used in clinic for treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Currently, diverse anesthetic methods, including general anesthesia (GA), epidural anesthesia and local anesthesia (LA), are used for RF ablation surgery. Using serum from HCC surgery patients randomized to receive either GA or LA during surgery, we investigated the effects of anesthetic methods on proliferation, migration and metastasis in HepG2 hepatic cancer cells in vitro.