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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Workplace exposures and oesophageal cancer
…between 1979 and 1985. It compared 99 men with oesophageal cancer (63 with squamous cell carcinoma) with 1,066 controls: 533 men from the general population and 533 men with other cancers. Chemists and industrial hygienists…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestos content of lung tissue, lymph nodes, and pleural plaques from former shipyard workers
…in tissue taken at autopsy from eight former shipyard workers, aged 58 to 82, at the General Hospital of Monfalcone, a shipyard town in northeastern Italy. Seven had work histories of 6 to 46 years in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Interaction of asbestos, age, and cigarette smoking in producing radiographic evidence of diffuse pulmonary fibrosis
…populations with different levels of exposure to asbestos and with different cigarette smoking histories shows that smoking in the general population does not produce pulmonary fibrosis recognizable on chest radiography. In the general population of Michigan…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Standards for asbestos exposure
…not a research study, and it reported no data. It was written by the Director General of the Asbestos International Association in London. It replied to a Lancet 'Round the World' report (Dec 3, p 1298)…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Value of the lateral view in diagnosing pleural plaques
…assess the value of the lateral view in the diagnosis of pleural plaques, 2018 chest roentgenograms from the general population were scrutinized for such plaques. The lateral and posterior-anterior (PA) views were read separately and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Comparison of U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards and German Berufsgenossenschaften Guidelines for Preventive Occupational Health Examinations
…compared the medical examination requirements in U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) general industry standards with those in the German Berufsgenossenschaften guidelines for preventive occupational health examinations. They used a previously published method that…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Cancer incidence of Taiwanese shipbreaking workers who have been potentially exposed to asbestos
…number of cancers for shipbreaking workers was calculated by using the age (5-year intervals) and calendar time-specific annual rates of cancer incidence with reference to the general population of Taiwan from 1985 to 2008…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
New developments in asbestos-induced pleural disease
…plaques and diffuse pleural thickening, together called pleural fibrosis. It reported that across 16 general-population autopsy studies, pleural plaques were found in 857 of 7,085 autopsies (12.2 percent, range 0.5 to 39…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Mesothelioma and lung cancer mortality: a historical cohort study among asbestosis workers in Hong Kong
…all 124 men newly diagnosed with asbestosis at Hong Kong's Pneumoconiosis Clinic between 1981 and 2008 until the end of 2008. Deaths were compared with male general population rates. Most worked in shipyards or construction…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Re: Call for an International Ban on Asbestos
…not a research study. The author, Secretary General of the Collegium Ramazzini, supported the Collegium's Call for an International Ban on Asbestos. The author stated that asbestos harm is proven but underestimated in the scientific…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
What every physician should know about environmental health
…and chose textbooks, journal articles and government documents, favoring recent ones and those relevant to general practitioners. From these they listed what they called the top ten environmental health threats in the United States, including asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
A retrospective study of chest pain in benign asbestos pleural disease
…recognized, particularly in those with folded atelectasis and is not restricted to litigants. Improved recognition of this entity is needed along with practical management guidelines for the general practitioner. Further studies are envisaged by the authors.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Asbestos-related pleural plaques and lung cancer
…pleural plaques and lung cancer in the absence of parenchymal asbestosis. There were six cohort studies in which the comparison group was limited to unexposed persons or the general population, four lung cancer case-control studies…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
A genome-wide association study for malignant mesothelioma risk
This genome-wide association study looked for inherited DNA variants (SNPs) linked to malignant mesothelioma risk. The authors compared 428 mesothelioma patients from Western Australia and Queensland with 1269 general-population controls from Busselton, Western Australia…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Does exposure to asbestos cause ovarian cancer? A systematic literature review and meta-analysis
…The authors searched MEDLINE from 1950 to December 2008 and found 14 cohort studies and 2 case-control studies that reported on ovarian cancer in women exposed to asbestos at work or from their general environment…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Clinical trials of vitamin and mineral supplements for cancer prevention
…scale trials of multivitamin supplements (combinations of > or = 2 vitamins and minerals) to prevent cancer have been mixed. The Linxian General Population and Dysplasia trials found a decreased risk of cancer, particularly stomach cancer…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Hospitalization in Winnipeg, Canada due to occupational disease: a pilot study
…For 4.4% (13/297) of male admissions to the general medical wards from the emergency room occupational factors may have played a role in the development of medical conditions which led to admission or to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Compensation of pleural mesothelioma in France: data from the French National Mesothelioma Surveillance Programme
…the Compensation Fund for Asbestos Victims (FIVA) were analyzed. Approximately 30% of subjects presenting with pleural mesothelioma, affiliated to the General National Health Insurance fund, neither sought recognition as an OD nor claimed for FIVA compensation…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Asbestos exposure in the Monfalcone area. A social and pathological study of 100 autopsy cases
This study examined 100 consecutive autopsies (73 males and 27 females, aged 39 to 91) performed between October 1979 and June 1980 at the general hospital of Monfalcone, an Italian town with large shipyards. The authors…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
The long-lasting legacy of industrial carcinogens: the lesson of asbestos. Irving J. Selikoff Memorial Lecture, 1995
…Lecture, given in 1995. Much of it is the author's general discussion of cancer and industrial carcinogens. Its main original content was a series of Italian mesothelioma cases collected by the European Ramazzini Foundation. The…