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8 Applied Aspects ofSystemic Therapy inBreast Oncoplasty andReconstruction
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to perform CBE prior to each cycle of neoadju­vant therapy and only if there is suspicion of pro­gression, imaging is done. The indication and type of imaging modality performed after NAT may also depend upon the modality used at base­line or requirements of the surgical planning team [12]. Indeed, imaging before surgery is not required in patients who will anyway undergo mastectomy (patient decision, multicentric dis­ease, presence of other contraindications of breast conservation). USG is more accurate in determining response in axillary lymph nodes. MRI has better accuracy than CBE or conven­tional imaging for determining the extent of local residual disease and in surgical planning, with the best correlation with surgical pathology spec­imen. MRI is less accurate for a dendritic pattern of tumor shrinkage, non-mass breast cancers like inltrative lobular carcinoma or tumors with extensive DCIS component. Further, MRI may both underestimate and overestimate the extent of residual disease often resulting in superuous mastectomies [23, 24]. Positron emission tomog­raphy (PET) scans are not used in the routine assessment of response to NAT in non-metastatic disease due to their low sensitivity, poor avail­ability, and high costs.
Pathological response assessment is the gold standard and pCR has the most robust evidence supporting its role in assessing the efcacy of NAT. pCR has been dened variously in different studies but the absence of residual invasive dis­ease in breast or axilla with or without non- invasive disease is the most used denition [25, 26]. The most preferred method for assessment of pCR at present is residual cancer burden (RCB) criteria which are calculated using the two- dimensional diameter of the tumor in the surgical specimen, percentage of tumor cells (both DCIS and inva­sive tumor cells), and the number of metastatic nodes and size of lymph node metastasis. The RCB system is prognostic for disease-free sur­vival and overall survival. There is no evidence to support the use of blood markers like CA 15-3 and CA 27-29 for monitoring response while the role of reduced Ki 67% in the residual tumor after NAT in hormone-positive breast cancer is evolv-
ing and is not recommended outside of clinical trials.
8.8 Impact ofSystemic Therapy onWound Healing
Concerns regarding the possibility of higher wound-related complications due to preoperative or postoperative systemic therapies have always persisted among surgeons based on anecdotal evidence. Alkylating agents (doxorubicin) and antimetabolites (5-uorouracil, methotrexate, high dose cyclophosphamide) have been reported to be associated with reduced wound tensile strength by impairing initial phases of healing especially if received within 7–14days of periop­erative period [27, 28]. Limited retrospective data suggest that hormonal agents like tamoxifen might increase microvascular complications and delay wound healing during autologous recon­struction procedures [28, 29]. However, clini­cally meaningful effect on the surgical wound has not been demonstrated with taxanes, aroma­tase inhibitors, and trastuzumab. Large retrospec­tive and prospective evidence now suggest that patients who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by breast surgery with immediate reconstruction did not show increased rate of wound complications like skin ap necrosis, infection, hematoma, and implant or ap loss as compared to those who did not receive NACT [30, 31]. In a recent meta-analysis of more than eighty-ve thousand patients, NACT in breast cancer did not affect 30-day morbidity in patients receiving immediate implant or aps. Breast reconstruction done immediately or in a delayed manner may cause a small but signicant delay in the initiation of adjuvant chemotherapy, but this delay has not been found to have a signicant impact on oncological outcomes [31]. If started at an appropriate time after surgery, adjuvant che­motherapy does not seem to increase wound­related complications or worsen cosmesis as most of these happen before the start of systemic therapy, therefore, more likely related to surgical factors or other patient-related factors.
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8.9 Timing ofAdjuvant Systemic Therapy
The time interval between denitive surgery and initiation of adjuvant chemotherapy (time to adjuvant chemotherapy, TTC) affects long-term outcomes. The lack of data from published ran­domized studies on the time frame of starting chemotherapy after curative surgery and the ethi­cal dilemma of conducting a clinical trial to answer this question have perpetuated the contro­versy of optimal TTC. A recent meta-analysis (n= 15,327) reported that each 4-week delay in initiating adjuvant chemotherapy translates into a 6% increase in the risk of death and an 8% increase in the risk of recurrence [32]. In another large retrospective cohort of breast cancer patients (n=24,843), patients who received adju­vant chemotherapy at 91days or more after sur­gery had worse overall survival (HR, 1.34; 95%CI 1.15–1.57) and breast cancer-specic sur­vival (HR, 1.27; 95%CI 1.05–1.53), while there was no evidence of adverse outcomes in the delay of 31–90 days compared with those receiving within 31days [33]. Specically, the TNBC sub­group is associated with higher 10-year mortality when TTC was beyond 30 days, especially in those who underwent breast conservation surgery (HR,1.69; 95%CI 1.22–2.34, p=0.002) but not in those who underwent mastectomy (HR, 1.04; 95%CI 0.84–1.28, p=0.716) [34]. Current breast cancer guidelines recommend that chemotherapy should be initiated 6–12weeks after surgery and excessive delay should be avoided in patients with locally advanced disease, TNBC, and HER2 positive tumors [12]. Even more complicated is the determination of the appropriate timing of initiating adjuvant endocrine therapy, especially its integration in the treatment plan of patients who also require adjuvant chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Major clinical guidelines do not adequately address this dilemma and recommend a physician or patient preference [12]. There is no evidence to support the concern that aromatase inhibitors given concurrently with RT lead to increased radiosensitivity related toxicity or det­rimental disease control. Retrospective evidence suggests no impact on the efcacy of concurrent
administration of tamoxifen with radiotherapy; however, heterogeneous evidence exists for treatment- related toxicities, specically skin and lung brosis when tamoxifen is given concur­rently with RT.Therefore, in a patient population with high cure rates, preventing long-term com­plications by sequential administration is the pre­ferred strategy.
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Perioperative Management
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NishkarshGupta andSushmaBhatnagar
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9.1 Introduction
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer for women all over the world including India [1]. Anesthesia management of these patients poses unique challenges to anesthesiolo­gists because of multiple factors involved; variety of procedures like loco-regional treatment includ­ing surgery and radiation therapy. The surgical treatment may include modied radical mastec­tomy, simple mastectomy, breast conserving sur­gery, sentinel lymph node biopsy, breast reconstruction, etc. In addition, patient may have received systemic adjuvant therapy in form of neoadjuvant/adjuvant chemotherapy and adju­vant endocrine therapy. Gaps in perioperative management have been identied as the single most important factor for increased perioperative mortality [2].
Thus it is important to understand the nature and the magnitude of these risks. The anesthetic concerns for perioperative management of patients undergoing breast cancer surgery can be divided into preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative period.
N. Gupta · S. Bhatnagar (*) Department of Onco-Anaesthesiology and Palliative Medicine, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
9.1.1 Preoperative Period
The main aim of pre-anesthesia clinical assess­ment is to ascertain the anesthetic and surgical risk and best optimize it before the procedure. Medical comorbidities are a major source of adverse perioperative morbidity and can be reduced by a properly conducted pre-anesthesia checkup. It is important to ensure that a patient undergoes a desired surgical intervention with minimal exacerbation of existing disorders, avoidance of new morbidities, and prompt recov­ery from the surgical procedure. For a successful outcome, it is crucial to provide patients with pre­operative counseling, explain the procedure, and describe potential risks, if any. Preoperative dis­cussion about the procedure between anesthesi­ologist and surgeon is also important to ensure an uneventful perioperative course. Sources of peri­operative risk may be classied as a risk due to:
1. Anesthetic—anesthesia related risk may be due to
(a) Anesthetic drugs and interventions (b) Mechanical and operator error
2. Systemic illness that may affect aesthetic technique (patient factors)
(a) Cardiac: Many anesthesia induction
agents and inhalational agents are myo­cardial depressants. Unoptimized patients with cardiac disease may have accentu­ated hypotensive response to induction of
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Fig. 9.1 Specic concerns in cancer patient during preanesthesia evaluation
Malnourishment and Systemic effects of Cancer related pain and
cancer cachexia
anesthesia. The cardiac evaluation and optimization of breast cancer patients is based on accepted guidelines as done of other patients, but the time sensitive nature of the surgery is considered while deciding [3].
(b) Autonomic (ANS) neuropathies, such as
diabetic, also accentuate hypotension with anesthetic induction. In addition, ANS dys­function has been noted in cancer patients, more so in advanced cancer. Anti-neoplastic therapy in the form of chemotherapy (vinca alkaloids, anthracyclines, paclitaxel) as well as radiotherapy has been shown to contribute to ANS dysfunction [4]. Decreased physical activity, psychosocial stress, sleep disturbances, metabolic derangements, loss of cardiorespiratory t­ness that are commonly present in cancer patients may also adversely impact ANS function [5]. Resting tachycardia and pos­tural hypotension can be done bedside to detect ANS dysfunction in these patients. In select cases formal ANS testing in labs may improve overall patient outcomes.
(c) Pulmonary: Induction of anesthesia
decreases vital capacity, functional resid­ual capacity, and McCleary clearance. Also a response to hypoxia and hypercar­bia is depressed. The patients with preop­erative respiratory dysfunction may have postoperative respiratory morbidity like pneumonia, etc. [6].
3. Specic concerns in cancer patient In addition to the usual concerns regarding
optimization of comorbidities, detection of undiagnosed illnesses, and alleviating patient anxiety, cancer patients present specic and
Specific challenges in
cancer patient
chemo and radiotherapy associated medications
unique challenges. A brief discussion of these conditions is done to keep the anesthetist up to date regarding these special considerations and the hazards posed by them (Fig.9.1).
(a) Preoperative chemotherapy may be asso-
ciated with numerous side effects on vari­ous organ systems. Anesthetists should have a detailed knowledge about the drugs and doses given and should keep a keen eye for the anticipated adverse effects during the preoperative assess­ment of cancer patient. Commonly used chemotherapy drugs include doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, tamoxifen, and trastuzumab [7].
Anthracyclines like doxorubicin may lead to cardiac injury which may be pro­gressive from the time of exposure and continue for months to years. The clinical manifestations may be classied into acute (usually reversible, occurring dur­ing duration of treatment), sub-acute (detected within a year of exposure), and chronic (detected years after exposure) [8]. A detailed assessment of the patient (history and systemic examination) should be done. An ECG is usually non­specic and sinus tachycardia is most reported rhythm. We may need to order specic tests like echocardiography in case of any cardiac toxicity is expected. In addition, the chemotherapy drugs may cause myelosuppression that may lead to pancytopenia (anemia, neutropenia, and thrombocytopenia). This may pose a challenge during surgery and one should order fresh investigations of the patients after last chemotherapy.
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Preoperative radiation therapy (RT): Usually RT is given in breast cancer patients after surgery, but recent reports have been suggesting role of Rt in preop­erative period especially in locally advanced cancers and early stage disease as well that may improve overall outcomes of the patients [9]. Radiation therapy near heart in patients of breast cancer may produce a wide array of acute and chronic cardiovascular adverse effects like pericarditis with pericardial effusion (presents within 6 months to 2years after radiation and may be asymp­tomatic), injury to coronary arteries (luminal narrowing and coronary artery disease), valvular dysfunction, myocar­dial brosis, and brosis of conducting system of heart [10]. So, a patient with history of preoperative breast RT for sur­gery should be thoroughly screened for above mentioned complications.
(b) Pain in cancer patients: Cancer patient
coming for surgery is often receiving analgesics to control their pain. A patient receiving opioid analgesics may have some degree of tolerance and require dose escalation in the postoperative period. A thorough drug history with details of analgesic use should be elicited in the preoperative visit [11].
(c) Nutrition in cancer patients:spiepr patient
with cancer coming for surgery may be malnourished with poor body reserves and may not tolerate the surgical and peri­operative stress. Nutritional deciency can occur in a cancer patient due to vari­ous reasons like metabolic alterations due to the malignancy per se and hyper-cata­bolic inammatory state leading to “can­cer cachexia” [2, 12].
In addition, side effects of chemother­apy like intractable vomiting, chemother­apy related alterations in taste and smell lead to loss of appetite [13].
Poor nutritional status may lead to patient who may have delayed wound healing, surgical site infections, and
delayed recovery. Thus, assessment of nutritional status is an integral part of pre­operative evaluation of cancer patient [14].
Indiscriminate use of enteral or paren­teral nutrition may be no proven survival benet in patients undergoing cancer sur­gery. Some studies have found fewer operative complications and a shorter length of hospital stay in severely mal­nourished patients receiving nutritional support prior to major surgery for cancers of the digestive tract and the head and neck [15].
4. Surgical risk: Various models have been pro- posed for surgical risk assessment. John Hopkins Risk classication classies the sur­geries into 5 categories based on severity of surgery and degree of blood loss. Majority of breast cancer surgery can be classied into category 1 (the surgery is minimally invasive and with minimal blood loss and minimal risk independent to anesthesia) [16].
It is always a dilemma to send the oncosurgery patients to physician for optimization as any delay due to optimization of risk factors may lead to progression of the malignancy, make the tumor non-respectable, and curable cancer may become incurable. There are no clear cut guidelines on target wait times for cancer surgeries. A patient’s journey from the start of symptoms to the operat­ing table can be understood by Fig.9.2.
As anesthetists we should aim to minimize the time for preoperative optimization (T2) without causing undue delay in surgery. One should start optimization of patient’s right from the rst day simultaneously with the surgical work-up. This will save time and patient will not have to wait for optimization. This means the time before coming for PAC check-up can be utilized for screening and control associated comorbidities and involve any specialist consults if required.
Ontario based study group has come up with guidelines for target wait times for various can­cer surgeries based on patient prole and type and stage of malignancy [17]. Most of the breast cancer patients posted for surgery can be catego-
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symptoms
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rized into category 3 (known or suspected inva­sive cancer) and we have a maximum of 1month (4 weeks) for optimization in case the need arises.
These guidelines provide an overview of the approximate or the 4 ideal time available to opti­mize a cancer patient coming for surgery and may be used as a measure of the quality of care.
9.2 Intraoperative Management
The breast cancer surgery can be done under standard general anesthesia (GA) only, GA with regional block technique or regional anesthesia with sedation only technique. Before initiating anesthesia, standard monitors should be attached. One should ensure a good venous access prefer­ably in arm contralateral to the side of surgery. In addition, one should avoid blood pressure moni­toring on the arm that is on the same side of sur­gery. During positioning one should ensure adequate padding and prevent overstretching of arm to prevent brachial plexus injury.
The anesthesia can be standard inhalation based or total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) depending on the availability of drugs/equipment and anesthetist’s expertise. Generally, we prefer to secure airway using a supraglottic device like (I-gel) and we intubate the patients undergoing prolonged surgeries like ap reconstruction. These patients are at higher risk for postoperative nausea vomiting and we prefer to use a combina­tion of drugs to manage it. We usually give 4mg
urgery
operate
T2
Totalpre op time T1 +T2
done
dexamethasone injection at induction and give injection ondansetron (4–8 mg) thirty minutes before completion of surgery.
During sentinel lymph node biopsy cardiovas­cular event may occur due to anaphylactic reac­tion to dyes used (isosulfan blue and methylene blue). So, one should be vigilant and be prepared in case of any eventuality.
In addition, a regional block technique like Serratus anterior plane block (SAP), thoracic paravertebral block (TPVB), erector spinae block (ESPB), PECS 1 and PECS 2 block, and thoracic epidural block (especially for surgery requiring ap) may be used [18].
Surgical handling of the tumor may lead to dispersal of neoplastic cells into the blood and lymphatic systems. Currently available literature is limited to animal experiments and retrospec­tive studies. A number of perioperative factors including anesthetic techniques and surgical fac­tors have been linked to cancer recurrence (Table9.1).
Regional anesthesia in addition to providing good analgesia reduces the chances of phantom breast pain syndrome. In addition, it reduces the tumor spread by decreasing the neuroendocrine stress response to surgery, reduces the need of intravenous or volatile agents or opioids, decreases inammatory cytokines, and preserves immune system. Various studies have been done till now and the results are conicting. Some studies are favoring regional anesthesia to pre­vent cancer recurrence and some studies relate regional anesthesia with tumor recurrence [19].
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Table 9.1 Perioperative factors that have potential for cancer spread and metastasis
Increased risk Decreased risk Surgery Regional anesthesia Hypothermia Propofol Psychological stress
and anxiety Intravenous
anesthetic agents Inhalational agents Beta-blockers Opioids Statins Blood transfusion Immunotherapy Pain Immunonutrition Anemia Tramadol Hypotension Thermotherapy Hypoxia Hyperthermic intra-peritoneal
Hyperglycemia Laparoscopic surgery 2 Midazolam Alpha-2 agonists
Local anesthetic
Cyclooxygenase inhibitors
chemotherapy (HIPEC)
9.3 Postoperative Management
1. A combination of analgesic drugs like paracetamol, NSAIDs, and opioids is used to provide multimodal analgesia. An effective analgesia also reduces the incidence of post­mastectomy pain.
2. A combination of drugs used intraoperatively to prevent nausea vomiting should be contin­ued in the postoperative period as well.
thermia, early cessation of intravenous uids, resumption of oral intake, and early ambulation [21].
9.5 Key Points
• Cancer surgeries are time sensitive and global data for average waiting time for surgeries may serve as guidelines for the time available to optimize a patient.
• Preoperative assessment should be started at the earliest at the time of visit to the surgeon using specially developed questionnaires to avoid unnecessary delays.
• Conduct of safe anesthesia and surgery in a cancer patient requires a delicate balance between optimization of comorbidities and evaluation of specic concerns for a cancer patient, care must be taken to avoid unneces­sary delays, and safe conduct of anesthesia and surgery should be kept in mind.
• The recent limited clinical evidence suggests that there is an association between anesthetic technique and cancer recurrence, but there is lack of prospective, randomized, clinical trials to prove this association beyond doubt.
• A comprehensive postoperative care plan should include multimodal analgesia and effective management of PONV.
9.4 Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (Eras) andBreast Surgery
ERAS protocols have included a standardized care pathway in the perioperative period and aim to reduce hospital stay and enhance postop­erative recovery [20]. The literature on the effect of ERAs protocols on patients undergo­ing breast surgery is limited. The components of ERAS protocol in breast surgery include pre­operative counseling, reduced fasting period, opioid sparing perioperative analgesia, main­taining intraoperative euvolemia and normo-
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