9 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Intrapulmonary lymph nodes. Clinical, radiologic, and pathologic features
This article from Massachusetts General Hospital described ten patients with intrapulmonary lymph nodes (lymph nodes within the lung tissue) seen over two years, and reviewed 13 earlier reported cases. The patients were aged 36 to 73…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Homozygous deletion of p16INK4a and tobacco carcinogen exposure in nonsmall cell lung cancer
This study examined 177 consecutive non-small cell lung cancers removed at Massachusetts General Hospital from November 1992 to January 1996. Smoking history and occupational asbestos exposure came from an interviewer-administered questionnaire. The authors tested…
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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 · 2006
Pathological recognition of diffuse malignant mesothelioma of the pleura: the significance of the historical perspective as regards this signal tumor
…but we do know that there were so few cases before 1930 that the very existence of the disease was not accepted in general before 1930 and not accepted by all pathologists even up until 1960…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Absence of evidence for a significant background incidence of diffuse malignant mesothelioma apart from asbestos exposure
…1940s. One must conclude that the background level of diffuse malignant mesothelioma in Europe and in the United States prior to 1930 was extremely low. No case was detected at the Massachusetts General Hospital until 1946.
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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 · 1981
The second diagnosis: the role of the pathologist in identifying pneumoconioses in lungs excised for tumor
This short review in the journal's Current Topics section, written by a lung pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, argued that pathologists examining lungs removed for tumor should also make a 'second diagnosis' of disease in…