9 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Compensation of pleural mesothelioma in France: data from the French National Mesothelioma Surveillance Programme
…the Compensation Fund for Asbestos Victims (FIVA) were analyzed. Approximately 30% of subjects presenting with pleural mesothelioma, affiliated to the General National Health Insurance fund, neither sought recognition as an OD nor claimed for FIVA compensation…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Occupational exposure to flour dust and the risk of head and neck cancer
…cancers, diagnosed between 2001 and 2007, with 762 women and 2745 men randomly selected from the general population as controls. Flour dust exposure was estimated from each person's job history using a job-exposure matrix…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Malignant pleural mesothelioma associated with exposure to tremolite
…microscopy showed that rock and whitewash samples consisted primarily of asbestiform tremolite. Air sampling in two villages found no tremolite fibres in the general atmosphere. High concentrations were found in road dust clouds from a car…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Occupational exposures to asbestos, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and solvents, and cancers of the oral cavity and pharynx: a quantitative literature review
…risk. On the other hand, no association was found with exposure to solvents in general (meta-RR 0.98; 95% CI 0.77-1.23) but the strong heterogeneity between studies suggested differences in exposures. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Attributable risk in men in two French case-control studies on mesothelioma and asbestos
…B. After weighting subjects according to distribution of socio-economic status in the general population for controls and according to distribution of socio-economic status of cases registered by the French National Mesothelioma Surveillance Program, re…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Investigation of occupational and environmental causes of respiratory cancers (ICARE): a multicenter, population-based case-control study in France
…was linked to cancer risk. The study included 2926 people with lung cancer, 2415 with head and neck cancer and 3555 comparison subjects from the general population. Between 2001 and 2007, cases were identified with cancer…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Assessment of environmental and domestic exposure to tremolite in New Caledonia
…concluded that the whitewash may produce high airborne fiber levels and lung contents comparable with occupational settings. They noted that samples came from sick patients and probably did not reflect the general population's lung burden.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Asbestos hazard evaluation in South Korean textile production
…practices, and the results of personal asbestos dust monitoring at five representative textile production workstations. In general, manufacturers and regulatory agencies have not taken the precautions necessary to adequately protect employee health and meet international standards…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Computer modeling of population exposure to a carcinogen: the example of asbestos and mesothelioma mortality in France
…since exposure, and age. When exposure to a carcinogenic agent and its impact in terms of morbidity and mortality are modeled on the scale of the general population, individual exposures must often be estimated. If appropriate…