7 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Cancer Attributable to Asbestos Exposure in Shipbreaking Workers: A Matched-Cohort Study
…followed 4,427 former shipbreaking workers in Taiwan, members of the 1985 Kaohsiung Shipbreaking Workers Union, and 22,135 general-population controls matched by age, sex and living area. All were linked to the Taiwan Cancer…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Increased Standardised Incidence Ratio of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma in Taiwanese Asbestos Workers: A 29-Year Retrospective Cohort Study
…including MPM (ICD-9 code: 163), were obtained from the Taiwan Cancer Registry. SIRs were calculated based on comparison with the incidence rate of the general population of Taiwan and adjusted for age, calendar period, sex…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Mortality among shipbreaking workers in Taiwan--a retrospective cohort study from 1985 to 2008
…from 1985 to 2008. The mortality ratios-standardized for age and calendar years-(SMRs) for various causes of deaths were calculated with reference to the general population of Taiwan. Among men workers, a statistically significant increased…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Cancer incidence of Taiwanese shipbreaking workers who have been potentially exposed to asbestos
…number of cancers for shipbreaking workers was calculated by using the age (5-year intervals) and calendar time-specific annual rates of cancer incidence with reference to the general population of Taiwan from 1985 to 2008…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Increased Risk of Gastric Cancer in Asbestos-Exposed Workers: A Retrospective Cohort Study Based on Taiwan Cancer Registry 1980-2015
…the period 1980-2015. Standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) for cancer were computed for the whole cohort using reference rates of the general population, and also reference labor population. Compared with the general population, SIR of the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Clustering of malignant pleural mesothelioma in asbestos factories: a subgroup analysis in a 29-year follow-up study to identify high-risk industries in Taiwan
…of malignant pleural mesothelioma (17 men, 1 woman) in eight factories. Each factory's rate was compared with Taiwan's general-population pleural cancer rate, used as a proxy, of 1.04 per million person-years…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Impact of malignant mesothelioma in Taiwan: a 27-year review of population-based cancer registry data
…7.6 for males and 13.5 for females. Compared with the age- and sex-matched general population, the authors estimated 14.2 expected years of life lost per case (95% confidence interval 12.8 to…