4 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Impact of low-dose computed tomography screening on lung cancer mortality among asbestos-exposed workers
…deaths from all cancers or from malignant neoplasm of the pleura. Deaths from pleural cancer were higher than in the general population in both groups. The authors concluded that taking part in screening was associated with…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Germline mutations in DNA repair genes predispose asbestos-exposed patients to malignant pleural mesothelioma
…lifetime asbestos exposure had been estimated from interviews about exposure at work, at home and in the general environment. The authors sequenced 94 cancer-related genes from blood samples and compared the results with 96 Italian…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Loss of C/EBP-β LIP drives cisplatin resistance in malignant pleural mesothelioma
…of liver, kidney, heart or muscle toxicity. The authors called their patient data preliminary. With few patients and no comparison group given other treatments, they could not tell general prognosis apart from prediction of cisplatin response.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
COVID-19 in patients with thoracic malignancies (TERAVOLT): first results of an international, registry-based, cohort study
Early reports on patients with cancer and COVID-19 have suggested a high mortality rate compared with the general population. Patients with thoracic malignancies are thought to be particularly susceptible to COVID-19 given their older…