Cancer and anesthetic drugs, informed by the basic science the pre-clinical work and observational studies suggest the way that we provide anesthesia could have an impact on cancer outcomes. This piece explores the evidence, with reference to trials both resolved and ongoing.

Presented by Monty Mythen with Tom Wall, consultant anesthesiology in the Mater Hospital he also has an academic affiliation with University College Dublin, Joyce Yeung, associate clinical professor of anesthesia and critical care, University of Warwick and Director of the UK perioperative medicine clinical trials network, Bernhard Riedel, Professor, Director of the Department of Anesthesia, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, with an honorary academic appointment at the University of Melbourne and Vijaya Gottumukkala, Professor of Anesthesia and Deputy Chair at MD Anderson.