Adapting Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Protocols to Promote Equity in Cancer Care and Outcomes.

Equity-focused evaluations of existing healthcare system-level policies, clinical practices, and interventions are needed to identify factors that may narrow, or unintentionally widen, the racial disparity in cancer outcomes. We focus here on the evaluation of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols and their potential to promote equity in cancer care and outcomes.

Racial and ethnic disparities in genomic testing among lung cancer patients: a systematic review.

Background: Racial and ethnic disparities in genomic testing could exacerbate disparities in access to precision cancer therapies and survival-particularly in the context of lung cancer where genomic testing has been recommended for the past decade. However, prior studies assessing disparities in genomic testing have yielded mixed results.

Methods: We conducted a systemic review to examine racial and ethnic disparities in the use of genomic testing among lung cancer patients in the United States.

Effect of Environmental Concentration of Carbamazepine on the Behaviour and Gene Expression of Laboratory Rats.

Carbamazepine (CBZ), an effective drug for epilepsy and other neurological diseases, and its metabolites are one of the most frequently detected substances in the aquatic environment. Although these are doses of very low concentrations, chronic exposure to them can affect the physiological processes of living organisms. This experiment may clarify if carbamazepine, under an environmental and a therapeutic concentration, can affect the behaviour of higher vertebrates, especially mammals, and gene expressions of and in the brain compared to the control group without exposure to CBZ.

The utility of the 'Arable Weeds and Management in Europe' database: Challenges and opportunities of combining weed survey data at a European scale.

Over the last 30 years, many studies have surveyed weed vegetation on arable land. The 'Arable Weeds and Management in Europe' (AWME) database is a collection of 36 of these surveys and the associated management data. Here, we review the challenges associated with combining disparate datasets and explore some of the opportunities for future research that present themselves thanks to the AWME database.

Degradation Processes of Medieval and Renaissance Glazed Ceramics.

Corrosion effects in deposit environments (soil, waste pit, etc.), together with the glaze adherence and fit, could cause severe deterioration accompanied by different types of defects or growth of corrosion products. The aim of this work was to identify the source of surface degradation of the lead-glazed ceramics sets from the Prague area from the Romanesque to the Renaissance period.