The notion that stress and cancer are interlinked has dominated lay discourse for decades.
More recent animal studies indicate that stress can substantially facilitate cancer …

Surgery is a mainstay treatment for patients with solid tumours. However, despite surgical
resection with a curative intent and numerous advances in the effectiveness of (neo) …

Evidence suggests that the perioperative period and the excision of the primary tumour can
promote the development of metastases—the main cause of cancer-related mortality. This …

Disease progression in cancer is dependent on the complex interaction between the tumor
and the host inflammatory response. There is substantial evidence in advanced cancer that …

Surgical procedures such as tumor resection and biopsy are still the gold standard for
diagnosis and (determination of) treatment of solid tumors, and are prognostically beneficial …

Background The impact of anastomotic leakage on immediate postoperative mortality in
patients undergoing potentially curative resection for colorectal cancer is well recognized. Its …

Excisional surgery is one of the primary treatment modalities for cancer. Minimal residual
disease (MRD) is the occult neoplastic disease that remains in situ after curative surgery …

Background Some studies have shown that the presence of a systemic inflammatory
response, as evidenced by raised circulating concentrations of C-reactive protein (CRP) …

A few clinical investigations suggest that while primary breast cancer surgical removal
favorably modifies the natural history for some patients, it may also hasten the metastatic …

Despite progressive improvements in the management of patients with locoregionally
confined, advanced-stage solid tumours, distant metastasis remains a very common—and …