The effect of epidural analgesia on cancer progression in patients with stage IV colorectal cancer after primary tumor resection: A retrospective cohort study

• Ying-Hsuan Tai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ying-Hsuan Tai, Wen-Kuei Chang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, New Taipei City, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Wen-Kuei Chang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ying-Hsuan Tai, Wen-Kuei Chang

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Hsiang-Ling Wu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Yuli Branch, Hualien, Taiwan

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• Min-Ya Chan,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Technology Application and Human Resource Development, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Hsiu-Hsi Chen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, Graduate Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Kuang-Yi Chang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kychang@vghtpe.gov.tw

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9062-5519

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