Fig 1.
Anesthesia techniques for curative surgery in stage III breast cancer can be categorized into two types: propofol-based maintenance or inhaled agent maintenance. This article aims to explore and compare the outcomes associated with these two techniques. Icon made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com.
Fig 2.
Flowchart of study population.
The study analyzed patients with stage III breast cancer who underwent surgical interventions from NHIRD and TCR databases after excluding ineligible cases.
Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of stage III breast cancer patients who received surgery in Taiwan (2010–2017).
Table 2.
Comparison of overall mortality rate in stage III breast cancer patients considering different baseline characteristics, after adjusting for age, sex, comorbidities, and medications before propensity score matching.
Fig 3.
The cumulative mortality rate among stage III breast cancer patients is lower with inhaled anesthetics (IA) compared to non-inhaled anesthetics (non-IA).
(A) Before propensity score matching; (B) After propensity score matching.
Table 3.
Comparisons of mortality and recurrence rate between stage III breast cancer patients after propensity score matching.