35 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 2 of 2
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
I. J. Selikoff and E. C. Hammond, 'Asbestos and Smoking,' JAMA Editorial (1979)
A JAMA editorial by Selikoff and Hammond on the interaction of asbestos exposure and cigarette smoking. It reports follow-up data on 12,051 asbestos insulation workers, 1967-1976, with lung cancer and asbestosis death rates, and advises exposed…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1976
I. J. Selikoff, 'Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma During Prospective Surveillance of 1249 Asbestos Insulation Workers, 1963-1974' (1976)
Reprint of a journal article reporting a 1963-1974 prospective medical surveillance of 1,249 New York-New Jersey asbestos insulation workers. It presents tables of expected and observed deaths from lung cancer, mesothelioma, asbestosis and other…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 25, 1982
Irving J. Selikoff, "Asbestos-Related Disease - An Overview, 1982," World Symposium on Asbestos, Montreal (1982)
Conference paper by Dr. Irving J. Selikoff presented in Session I (Asbestos: The Medical Data) of the World Symposium on Asbestos, Montreal, May 1982. It reviews asbestos-related disease since the 1964 New York Academy of Sciences conference,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1975
I. J. Selikoff, 'Air Pollution and Asbestos Carcinogenesis: Investigation of Possible Synergism,' IARC Scientific Publication No. 16 (1975)
Published paper by I. J. Selikoff on a study of asbestos insulation workers that examines whether urban air pollution adds to the lung cancer risk from asbestos and cigarette smoking. It summarizes earlier mortality studies of insulation workers,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1978
Naseem, Tishler, Anderson and Selikoff, 'Aryl Hydrocarbon Hydroxylase in Asbestos Workers,' American Review of Respiratory Disease (1978)
Journal article reporting a study of aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) activity and inducibility in lymphoblasts from 47 asbestos workers and 31 control subjects. The authors reported greater mean AHH inducibility in the exposed group and discussed…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1976
I. J. Selikoff, Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma During Prospective Surveillance of 1249 Asbestos Insulation Workers, 1963-1974 (1976)
Journal article by Irving J. Selikoff reporting mortality and clinical surveillance findings for New York-area asbestos insulation workers followed from 1963 to 1974. It reports deaths from lung cancer, mesothelioma and asbestosis, and describes the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 1980
Selikoff, Seidman and Hammond, 'Mortality Effects of Cigarette Smoking Among Amosite Asbestos Factory Workers', JNCI (1980)
Journal article reporting a prospective mortality study of 582 men who worked at a Paterson, New Jersey amosite asbestos factory in 1941-45, observed from the 20-year point through 1977. It reports 304 deaths, 60 from lung cancer, and a calculated…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1971
I. J. Selikoff, E. C. Hammond and J. Churg, Neoplasia Risk Associated with Occupational Exposure to Airborne Inorganic Fibers (1971)
Reprint of a 1971 conference paper on cancer risk from airborne inorganic fibers. It reviews neoplasms associated with asbestos and other mineral fibers and tabulates deaths among 632 New York-New Jersey insulation workers, including 916 consecutive…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 3, 1979
Selikoff and Hammond, 'Asbestos and Smoking,' JAMA Editorial (1979)
A JAMA editorial by Selikoff and Hammond on the interaction of asbestos exposure and cigarette smoking in lung cancer and asbestosis mortality among asbestos insulation workers. It recommends that exposed workers not smoke and receive periodic…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 15, 1975
Rohl, Langer, Selikoff and Nicholson, 'Exposure to Asbestos in the Use of Consumer Spackling, Patching, and Taping Compounds,' Science (1975)
Article from Science reporting analysis of 15 consumer spackling and patching compounds bought in the New York City area, plus industrial drywall taping compounds, for asbestos and other minerals. It also reports airborne fiber measurements during…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 25, 1982
Irving J. Selikoff, 'Asbestos-Related Disease - An Overview, 1982,' World Symposium on Asbestos, Montreal (1982)
Conference paper by Irving J. Selikoff for Session I (The Medical Data) of the World Symposium on Asbestos, Montreal, May 1982. It reviews asbestos-related disease since the 1964 New York Academy of Sciences conference, covering mortality among…
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Article · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 8, 1968
Irving J. Selikoff, E. Cuyler Hammond and Jacob Churg, Asbestos Exposure, Smoking, and Neoplasia (1968)
…E. Cuyler Hammond of the American Cancer Society, on 370 members of the insulators' union in New York and Newark followed from 1963 to April 1967. Of 283 men with a history of regular cigarette smoking…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 28, 1971
Dr. Irving J. Selikoff to J. B. Jobe Asking for Data on Manville Plant Workers (1971)
…was reflected by inadequate control measures, will plague us for some years." He offers assurances: "It is not our intention that your cooperation hurt you," the data would be for research only, individuals' information would stay…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1969
Selikoff, Pundsack and Hammond, "Fibrous Dust Respirator Protection: Designing for Workman Acceptance and Effectiveness" (1969)
…against chrysotile, but noted that amosite and crocidolite had not been tested. In two-day field trials with union members and an insulation contractor, men wearing a J-M prototype with an exhalation valve, the same…
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Government report · 1968
Occupational Safety and Health: Hearings Before the Select Subcommittee on Labor of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, on H.R. 14816 (1968)
…testimony and prepared statement of Dr. Irving J. Selikoff of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine on six years of research among asbestos insulation workers: excess deaths among 632 union members, lung cancer, mesothelioma and asbestosis…