3 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Setting new standards for epidemiological research on mesothelioma
…control study. Controls were resected lung cancer cases, who represent less advanced disease and would be expected to have higher fibre burdens than the general population. Sample retrieval among controls was 262/420 (62.4%). They…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Comparison of exposure assessment methods for occupational carcinogens in a multi-centre lung cancer case-control study
…re-applied to all study subjects. Third, an independent general population JEM (GPJEM) was created by occupational exposure experts not involved in the original study, and applied to study subjects. Results from these methods were compared…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Occupational exposures and pancreatic cancer: a meta-analysis
…statistical test showed significant variation between these studies. Twenty populations compared with general-population rates gave a statistically significant ratio of 1.2 (1.0 to 1.5), while four case-control populations gave 0.7…