973 results for “General Electric”, page 11 of 49
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
Asbestos-related disease
This 2002 article by three doctors at Prince Philip Hospital, Llanelli, was a narrative review written for hospital doctors and general practitioners. It reported no new data. It summarised existing knowledge about asbestos-related disease, citing…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Hazards of white asbestos
…a letter to The Lancet, not a research study, written by a health and safety co-ordinator at the UK Transport and General Workers Union. It responded to a May 9, 1998 commentary by Mark Cullen…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Diet and other risk factors for laryngeal cancer in Shanghai, China
…box) in urban Shanghai, China. The authors interviewed 201 people newly diagnosed during 1988-1990 (177 men, 24 women) and 414 residents randomly selected from the general population (269 men, 145 women). Interviews covered smoking, drinking…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Association of cigarette smoking and asbestos exposure with location and histology of lung cancer
The authors analyzed 456 patients with newly diagnosed, surgically removed stage I or II lung cancer at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, from December 1992 to August 1996. The patients were the case group of a larger…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Tuberculosis and risk of cancer: a Danish nationwide cohort study
…Danish nationwide databases, we quantified cancer risk in TB patients during 1978-2011 compared with the general population. We observed 1747 cancers in 15 024 TB patients (median follow-up 8.5 years), reflecting a standardised…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Causation and financial compensation
…It is not a new study. The author outlined general steps for judging whether the environment plays a role in human disease. The author then described two methods developed with colleagues for workers occupationally exposed to…
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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…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Significance of asbestos in lung tissue
…is an abstract of a talk the author, of the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit in Penarth, gave at the 88th general meeting of the Association of Clinical Pathologists. It reports no patients, measurements or numerical study results…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Limitations in drawing etiologic inferences based on measurement of asbestos fibers from lung tissue
…exposure and disease cause from lung fiber and asbestos body counts. The author argued that autopsy subjects do not represent general-population deaths and that counts vary several-fold within one lung. Laboratory methods also differ…
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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…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1929
Pulmonary Asbestosis: Radiographic Apprearances In Skiagrams Of The Chests Of Workers In Asbestos
…mottling, signs of pleurisy at the lung bases, and thickening of the pleura at the lung tops. In general, the density and extent of the shadows were proportional to the length of exposure. Three patients died…
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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…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1938
Pneumoconiosis And Pulmonary Carcinoma
…the authors' own series, showed 30 with lung cancer (0.8 per cent). The authors said this was lower than in routine autopsies of the general population. Of 3,338 animals, only 2 guinea pigs developed…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Heterozygous germline BLM mutations increase susceptibility to asbestos and mesothelioma
…Therefore, 7 of 155 apparently unrelated mesothelioma patients carried BLM+/- mutations, significantly higher (P = 6.7E-10) than the expected frequency in a general, unrelated population from the gnomAD database, and 2 of 7 carried…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Survival patterns in lung and pleural cancer in Europe 1999-2007: Results from the EUROCARE-5 study
…and 34,146 pleural cancer patients diagnosed in 2000–2007, followed to the end of 2008. Relative survival compares patients with the general population. For lung cancer, relative survival was 39% at 1 year and 13…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Cancer and noncancer mortality among aluminum smelting workers in Badin, North Carolina
…rate ratios (SRRs) were calculated to compare mortality rates between workers ever employed vs never employed in the pot room. All-cause mortality among Badin workers was lower than in the general population (SMR: 0.81…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1948
Asbestosis: Vi. Analysis Of Forty Necropsied Cases
…fibrosis resembling silicosis. Three of the forty had lung cancer (7.5 per cent), versus 1 per cent in 2,683 general necropsies over ten years. All three had medium to advanced asbestosis. The authors concluded…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Pleural mesothelioma in Poland: Spatial analysis of malignant mesothelioma prevalence in the period 1999-2013
…Geostatistical analysis shows that strong spatial clustering of MM incidence (referring to the general population as well as females and males separately) during the period 1999-2013 in the administrative units of Poland (provinces and counties…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Increased Risk of Gastric Cancer in Asbestos-Exposed Workers: A Retrospective Cohort Study Based on Taiwan Cancer Registry 1980-2015
…the period 1980-2015. Standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) for cancer were computed for the whole cohort using reference rates of the general population, and also reference labor population. Compared with the general population, SIR of the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
MesoTRAP: a feasibility study that includes a pilot clinical trial comparing video-assisted thoracoscopic partial pleurectomy decortication with indwelling pleural catheter in patients with trapped lung due to malignant pleural mesothelioma designed to address recruitment and randomisation uncertainties and sample size requirements for a phase III trial
…Another is video-assisted thoracoscopic partial pleurectomy/decortication (VAT-PD). Performed under general anaesthesia, VAT-PD permits surgical removal of the rind of tumour from the visceral pleura thereby allowing the lung to fully re-expand…