10 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1975
Proceedings: Asbestos carcinogenesis
This summary of a talk at the 16th Annual General Meeting of the British Association for Cancer Research reviewed cancers in people exposed to asbestos dust and whether they were linked to specific fibre types. Lung…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Significance of asbestos in lung tissue
…is an abstract of a talk the author, of the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit in Penarth, gave at the 88th general meeting of the Association of Clinical Pathologists. It reports no patients, measurements or numerical study results…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Combined effect of asbestos exposure and smoking on mortality from lung cancer in factory workers
…from hospital records, family doctors and relatives. Lung-cancer deaths were compared with the numbers expected from general-population rates adjusted for smoking. Workers with low-to-moderate exposure showed no significant excess, whether they smoked…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Combined effect of asbestos and smoking on mortality from lung cancer and mesothelioma in factory workers
…Deaths were tracked to 1980. There was no unexposed comparison group, so lung cancer deaths were compared with numbers expected from death rates in the general population of the region, adjusted for smoking. After this adjustment…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Mesothelioma in the London area
…to see whether the link with asbestos held in an urban setting. The team used hospital ward notes, the patients' general practitioners, and home interviews with surviving relatives, mostly carried out by social worker Hilda Thompson…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Current opinions on the asbestos cancer problem
This article was a synopsis of a recent review of epidemiological studies and a general summary by the same author, drawing on opinions expressed at the 1969 Pneumoconiosis Conference in Johannesburg. The author described international studies…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Pluripotential nature of mesotheliomata induced by inhalation of erionite in rats
…more frequently by inhalation of erionite than by asbestos inhalation. Erionite-induced tumours have in general a similar ultrastructural appearance to inoculum-induced pleural and peritoneal mesotheliomata. Unusual features of these tumours were the presence of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Predictions of mortality from mesothelial tumours in asbestos factory workers
…mortality and somewhat higher for women. The highest number of deaths from mesothelial tumours will occur during the 1980s, thereafter the numbers will decline because of the decreasing size of the cohort resulting from general mortality.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1969
Validation of death certificates in asbestos workers
…Validation of death certificates in asbestos workers. The Registrar General has supplied the certified cause of death of 436 past workers in an asbestos factory. An attempt was made to follow up the 301 (69%) deaths…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Asbestos in the work place and the community
…of mesothelial tumours in neighbourhoods of a source of asbestos dust, and the presence of asbestos bodies or calcified asbestos pleural plaques in the general population. Conditions giving rise to neighbourhood mesothelial tumours may not now…