6 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Association between diet and lung cancer location
This study used data from a hospital case-control study to look at 328 patients with newly diagnosed primary lung cancer at Massachusetts General Hospital between December 1992 and August 1996. Almost all had tumors that…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Promoter methylation of DAP-kinase: association with advanced stage in non-small cell lung cancer
…NSCLC). One hundred and eighty-five patients diagnosed with NSCLC undergoing surgical resection from June, 1992 through December, 1996 at Massachusetts General Hospital participated in this study. Methylation-Specific PCR (MSP), performed using fresh-frozen tissue…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Loss of heterozygosity of chromosome 3p21 is associated with mutant TP53 and better patient survival in non-small-cell lung cancer
This study examined tumors from a random subset of 260 patients with surgically removable non-small-cell lung cancer treated at Massachusetts General Hospital from November 1992 through December 1996. The authors looked for loss of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Association of cigarette smoking and asbestos exposure with location and histology of lung cancer
The authors analyzed 456 patients with newly diagnosed, surgically removed stage I or II lung cancer at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, from December 1992 to August 1996. The patients were the case group of a larger…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Author reply: 'Response to: Pleural abnormalities in the Framingham Heart Study: prevalence and CT image features' by Araki et al
…earlier study found pleural abnormalities in 1.5% of the cohort, which they suggested could be an index of asbestos exposure in the general population. They wrote that every case was confirmed by at least two…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Pleural abnormalities in the Framingham Heart Study: prevalence and CT image features
The prevalence of pleural abnormalities in the general population is an epidemiologically important index of asbestos exposure, which has not been investigated since a radiography-based study in 1980. We examined 2633 chest CT scans (mean…