9 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Emergency diagnosis of cancer and previous general practice consultations: insights from linked patient survey data
This study re-analysed the 2010 English Cancer Patient Experience Survey, linked to records of each patient's diagnostic route. It included 4647 responders whose cancer, one of 18 types including mesothelioma, was diagnosed as an emergency. It used…
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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 · 2007
Fiber deposition in the tracheobronchial region: experimental measurements
…the data shows large variability among the bifurcations within the same generation, there is a general trend for the data obtained in these two replicas. Our results show that fiber deposition for carbon fibers increases with…
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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…