14 results for “General Electric”
-
Medical study · Medical research · 1956
Clinico-Pathological Conference: Vii. Montreal General Hospital, April 19, 1956
This clinico-pathological conference report from the Montreal General Hospital (April 19, 1956) described one patient. A 66-year-old white man was admitted with six weeks of cough, three weeks of shortness of breath and…
-
Medical study · Medical research · 1953
Asbestosis And Bronchogenic Carcinoma: Report Of One Autopsied Case And Review Of The Available Literature
…reviewed published literature on asbestos exposure and lung cancer. The patient was a 41-year-old asbestos mill worker admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital in April 1951. He had worked about twelve years in a mill…
-
Medical study · Medical research · 1958
Rheumatoid lung changes associated with asbestosis
…of rheumatoid lung disease. The patient was a 49-year-old man with rheumatoid arthritis who had worked as a general labourer in an asbestos factory from January 1952 to January 1956. The article does not…
-
Medical study · Medical research · 1951
Asbestosis associated with bronchogenic carcinoma
…cancer and asbestosis, and reviewed earlier published reports of lung cancer occurring together with asbestosis. The patient was a 40-year-old white man admitted to Queens General Hospital with cough, fever and weakness. He had…
-
Medical study · Medical research · 1952
Medical Progress - Occupational Medicine - Hardy
…cases of asbestosis with a 13.2 per cent incidence of pulmonary cancer, compared with 1.0 per cent in the general adult population. Two case reports were described: a shipyard worker using asbestos who died…
-
Medical study · Medical research · 1955
Lung Cancer In Asbestosis
…expected. These included 11 lung cancer deaths against 0.8 expected; the average risk was of the order of ten times that of the general population. In a series of 1205 lung specimens with dust diseases…
-
Medical study · Medical research · 1956
Environmental causes of lung cancer
…cancer hazards had been shown for asbestos workers and other occupational groups, with lung cancer attack rates many times those of the general population of the same age and sex. It gave no asbestos-specific figures…
-
Medical study · Medical research · 1950
Asbestos and Pulmonary Cancer - Letters
…findings are reported. The writers proposed two lines of research. One was a statistical survey of workers and the general population in two towns. The other was animal experiments using fibers named as Vimy, J-M…
-
Medical study · Medical research · 1954
Effects Of Dusts And Fumes Upon Man
…called atelectasis. They stated that this damage, like that of silicosis, was in general permanent. They added that prolonged exposure to these dusts greatly raised susceptibility to tuberculosis, more so from quartz than from asbestos. They…
-
Medical study · Medical research · 1953
An Evaluation Of Claims For Occupational Factors In Cancer Of The Lungs
…cancers among reported cases, not all workers. From Registrar General death statistics, the author calculated a general-population lung cancer death rate for England and Wales of 1.36, unit likewise lost. A Finnish series of…
-
Medical study · Medical research · 1955
Carcinoma of the lung in asbestosis: report of two additional cases
…their lungs (8.2 per cent). Over the same period and age range, their hospital's general rate was 1.5 per cent. No fiber type was named. The authors concluded that this and other series…
-
Medical study · Medical research · 1955
Silicosis and asbestosis: diagnosis, prevention and treatment
…stated that effective therapy for disabling asbestosis had not been demonstrated. American experience had not shown more lung cancer in recognized asbestosis cases than in the general population, although British experience suggested a possible causal relationship…
-
Medical study · Medical research · 1950
Tubular crystals of chrysotile asbestos
…oxygen sheet. The authors concluded that both natural and synthetic chrysotile crystallize as hollow cylindrical tubes, and that there is a general structural analogy and a striking resemblance between the tubular crystals of endellite and chrysotile.
-
Medical study · Medical research · 1955
Mortality from lung cancer in asbestos workers
…was a specific industrial hazard of certain asbestos workers and that the average risk among men employed for 20 or more years has been of the order of 10 times that experienced by the general population…