11 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Impact of induction therapy on postoperative outcome after extrapleural pneumonectomy for malignant pleural mesothelioma: does induction-accelerated hemithoracic radiation increase the surgical risk?
This retrospective study from Toronto General Hospital, Canada, reviewed patients who had extrapleural pneumonectomy for malignant pleural mesothelioma between January 2001 and December 2014. In this operation the lung, outer chest lining, diaphragm and heart sac…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
A feasibility study evaluating Surgery for Mesothelioma After Radiation Therapy: the "SMART" approach for resectable malignant pleural mesothelioma
This phase I/II feasibility study came from Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Toronto General Hospital, Canada. It tested a treatment, SMART, for surgically removable malignant pleural mesothelioma. It did not study asbestos exposure. From November…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
SORORIN and PLK1 as potential therapeutic targets in malignant pleural mesothelioma
…It did not study asbestos exposure. The authors measured gene activity in nine tumor samples from Toronto General Hospital and in four mesothelioma cell lines. They reported that both genes were overexpressed in a majority of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Use of the posterior pericardium to cover the bronchial stump after right extrapleural pneumonectomy
…a study of asbestos exposure. The author, a thoracic surgeon at Toronto General Hospital, described a way to cover the stapled end (stump) of the right main bronchus after right extrapleural pneumonectomy. This is an operation…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Kinesin family members KIF11 and KIF23 as potential therapeutic targets in malignant pleural mesothelioma
…measurements are reported in this article. Gene-activity testing showed both genes highly active in most of 13 tumor samples from Toronto General Hospital and in four mesothelioma cell lines, but low in a normal mesothelial…
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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
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 · 2020
A liquid biopsy for detecting circulating mesothelial precursor cells: A new biomarker for diagnosis and prognosis in mesothelioma
…mesothelioma. The presence of different subtypes of MPC have a prognostic value that could be of assistance with clinical decisions in patients with MPM. Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation Mesothelioma Research Fund, Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation.
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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…