11 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
A study of lung cancer mortality in asbestos workers: Doll, 1955
…mice by asbestos, were circulated in confidence to its scientists, but being unpublished were unknown to the general scientific community. There were also cancer mortality data recorded for populations of exposed asbestos workers, but these were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
The case for a global ban on asbestos
…cancer and mesothelioma. They described industry-sponsored "product defense" science. They cited a court document stating that General Motors, Ford and Chrysler paid almost $37 million between 2001 and 2008 to scientist-consultants. They reported that…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
The priority for recognizing asbestos as a multicentre carcinogen, and problems in categorizing asbestos tumours
…cited an earlier register study of 246 malignant mesothelioma cases in which three had additional primary cancers. That was not significantly different from the 1.2% rate in a separate review of 3,771 general autopsies.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Mesothelioma and non-occupational environmental exposure to asbestos
…the plant. The numbers were small, but rates appeared to fall with distance from Casale Monferrato. They discussed possible biases and concluded that a cancer risk from asbestos may arise in the general, non-occupational environment.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Pleural mesothelioma and occupational and non-occupational asbestos exposure: a case-control study with quantitative risk assessment
…Monferrato (north west Italy) is an area with an exceptionally high incidence of mesothelioma caused by asbestos contamination at work and in the general environment from the asbestos-cement Eternit plant that was operational until 1986…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
An Approach to Overcome the Limitations of Surveillance of Asbestos Related Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: What We Learned from the Sibaté Study in Colombia
…regional, and national authorities, as well as the general population. The active surveillance strategy successfully identified a mesothelioma cluster in Sibaté, revealing the inadequacy of the existing health information system in monitoring asbestos-related diseases. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Prevention of Asbestos Exposure in Latin America within a Global Public Health Perspective
…Supreme Court decision backing an asbestos ban. In parallel, continuous efforts should be made to stimulate the growth of competent and ethical researchers to convey adequate information to the scientific community and to the general public.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Cape Asbestos, Barking, health and environment: 1928-1946
…Barking, and that its exhaust ventilation was quite up to the general standard and constantly being improved. Reports on the factory environment and information on the health of Cape's workforce that are available for the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
The doctors and the dockers
…The Registrar General's occupational mortality report for 1951, noted excess tumors of the lung and stomach for dockers. Elevated Standardized Mortality Ratios for lung cancer had consistently been calculated by the Registrar General for the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
Mesothelioma register 1967-68
…but, in general, mesothelioma occured at an earlier age than carcinoma of bronchus and lung' or all malignant tumours' in the Registrar General's statistical mortality tables. Concomitant asbestosis and the finding of asbestos bodies or…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Multicentric study on malignant pleural mesothelioma and non-occupational exposure to asbestos
…A dose-response pattern appeared with intensity of both sources of exposure. It is suggested that low-dose exposure to asbestos at home or in the general environment carries a measurable risk of malignant pleural mesothelioma.