Abstract:Objective To investigate the effect of different anesthesia methods on perioperative T lymphocyte subsets and IL-2 level in ovarian cancer patients. Methods A total of 160 patients with ovarian cancer who underwent radical surgery in our hospital from January 2013 to December 2016 were selected as the subjects and divided into general anesthesia group and epidural anesthesia group according to the random number method, each group had 80 cases. The levels of peripheral blood T lymphocyte subsets and IL-2 were measured in the two groups. Results There was no significant difference in age, body weight, operation time, intraoperative blood loss or infusion volume between the general anesthesia group and the epidural anesthesia group (P > 0.05). The levels of CD3+, CD4+ and CD4+/CD8+ were different at different time points (P <0.05). The levels of CD3+, CD4+ and CD4+/CD8+ in the general anesthesia group were lower than those in the epidural anesthesia group (P < 0.05). The change trends of CD3+, CD4+ and CD4+/CD8+ in the general anesthesia group and the epidural anesthesia group were different (P < 0.05). There were differences in the IL-2 levels at different time points (P < 0.05). The level of IL-2 in the general anesthesia group was lower than that in the epidural anesthesia group (P < 0.05). There was significant difference in the change of IL-2 between the general anesthesia group and the epidural anesthesia group (P < 0.05). Conclusions Epidural anesthesia has less inhibitory effect on perioperative cellular immune function in patients with ovarian cancer radical surgery.