An experimental study of postoperative tumor metastases.II. Effects of anesthesia, operation, and cortisone administration on growth of pulmonary metastases

Abstract

HE PRESENCE of atypical cells in the cir-T culating blood of patients with advanced cancer was demonstrated in 1934 by Pool and Dunlop.13 Recently, Engel16 demonstrated the presence of tumor cells in blood drawn at the time of operation from peripheral veins and arteries and from veins draining tumor areas in patients with carcinomas. Fisher and turn bull^ have demonstrated the presence of tumor cells in mesenteric venous blood in patients with colorectal carcinoma.