Are asian immigrants to the United States less likely to donate cryopreserved embryos for research use?
Decreased donation of excess embryos for research among Asians born outside the U.S. may relate to religious, sociocultural, language, or other undescribed factors. Targeted educational strategies may be critical to the development of a diverse pool of embryos available for research.
In this sample, the experience and management of pain in older cancer patients was no different from that in younger patients. This suggests that delivering improvements in cancer pain management in the community is appropriate for all age groups. In addition, focussing efforts on patients, carers and non-medical health care professionals may prove to be the most successful strategy.