3 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Malignant mesothelioma after radiation treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma
…lymphoma. The risk was almost 30-fold increased in Hodgkin lymphoma patients treated with irradiation compared with the general population. Although histology and survival of the mesothelioma cases were comparable with cases from the general population…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Prognosis and prognostic factors of patients with mesothelioma: a population-based study
…more than 2 years, and less than 15% were alive at 3 years, against 90% of people of similar age and gender in the general Dutch population. After adjusting for other factors, worse survival was associated…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Treatment patterns and survival analysis in 9014 patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma from Belgium, the Netherlands and England
…this difference is probably overrated because of selection bias. They noted that treatment definitions differed between countries and that data on other illnesses and general fitness were missing. The authors concluded that chemotherapy has become standard…