9 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
The association between occupational asbestos exposure with the risk of incidence and mortality from prostate cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis
…methodological quality appeared to yield elevated SIRs or SMRs. This systematic review and meta-analysis provides evidence that men with occupational asbestos exposure have a PCa incidence and mortality similar to that of the general population…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
Occupational asbestos exposure and urinary bladder cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis
…observed no difference in the subgroup analysis for countries and no direct publication bias evidence. There is evidence that workers with occupational asbestos exposure have a bladder cancer incidence and mortality similar to the general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Contribution of environmental fibers to respiratory cancer
…large. Using a KL of 0.01, the authors estimated fewer than 100 lung cancers and 100 mesotheliomas per year in the general population from past ambient exposures. They noted great uncertainty in these estimates. They…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Dose-response relationships for asbestos-related disease: implications for hygiene standards. Part II. Mortality
…first exposure and duration were shown, with gastrointestinal cancer and asbestosis set aside. The author concluded that occupational exposure must be rigorously monitored, but that risk to the general population is likely to be extremely low.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Updated mortality study of a cohort of asbestos textile workers
Limited information is available on risk of peritoneal mesothelioma after asbestos exposure, and in general on the risk of cancer after cessation of asbestos exposure. We updated to 2013 the follow-up of a cohort of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Pleural mesothelioma and lung cancer risks in relation to occupational history and asbestos lung burden
We have conducted a population-based study of pleural mesothelioma patients with occupational histories and measured asbestos lung burdens in occupationally exposed workers and in the general population. The relationship between lung burden and risk, particularly…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Past and current asbestos exposure and future mesothelioma risks in Britain: The Inhaled Particles Study (TIPS)
…lung burdens in British birth cohorts from 1940 to 1992 were estimated for asbestos-exposed workers and the general population. Regression analysis of British mesothelioma death rates and average lung burdens in birth cohorts born before…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Methodological issues in descriptive environmental epidemiology. The example of study Sentieri
…of bias are not available. Such studies tend to replicate well-known associations and occasionally can identify critical situations requiring more investigation, but cannot be used to infer causality either in general or in specific circumstances.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Consensus Report of the 2015 Weinman International Conference on Mesothelioma
…as high mobility group box 1 and fibulin-3, are promising. There was general agreement that current treatment for MM, which is based on surgery and standard chemotherapy, has a modest effect on the overall survival…