6 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Does exposure to asbestos cause ovarian cancer? A systematic literature review and meta-analysis
…The authors searched MEDLINE from 1950 to December 2008 and found 14 cohort studies and 2 case-control studies that reported on ovarian cancer in women exposed to asbestos at work or from their general environment…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Risk factors for malignant mesothelioma in people with no known exposure to asbestos
…histories. Over 9 years, 38 cases and 134 hospital controls with conditions unrelated to asbestos (65 with other cancers, 69 with general medical conditions) were interviewed about their histories. An industrial hygienist, unaware of diagnoses, coded…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Pleural mesothelioma incidence in Europe: evidence of some deceleration in the increasing trends
To summarize the geographical and temporal variations in incidence of pleural mesothelioma in Europe, using the extensive data available from European general cancer registries, and consider these in light of recent trends in asbestos extraction, use…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Asbestos fibre burden in the lungs of patients with mesothelioma who lived near asbestos-cement factories
…residence to both plants. To provide information on the intensity of environmental asbestos exposure, in the general population living around these factories, through the evaluation of the lung fibre burden in mesothelioma patients. We analysed by…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
The Wittenoom legacy
…products in Western Australia. As a result, the state has recorded a higher malignant-mesothelioma mortality rate than in any other Australian state and in any defined general population in the world. Thus, the legacy of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Asbestos-related diseases in Italy: epidemiologic evidences and public health issues
…is presented. These systems evidence exposures to asbestos and relative risks for populations exposed in work environments and also in the general environment, and provide objective data to identify sources of exposure and for risk management…