973 results for “General Electric”, page 12 of 49
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Medical study · Medical research · 2024
Alloyed Airways: Chromium, Beryllium, and Titanium in the Lungs of an Aerospace Veteran
…The article is not about asbestos, which it names only as one of many general causes of pneumoconiosis. Breathing tests showed a 9% rise in FEV1 after a bronchodilator and a corrected DLCO of 74% of…
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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…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Patterns in the incidence, mortality and survival of malignant pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma, New South Wales, 1972-2009
…in 2009. The rate for men peaked at 5.7 per 100,000 (95% CI 4.7–6.6) in 1994. Relative survival compares patients with the general population. For people diagnosed 2000 to 2006, five…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Occupational exposure to flour dust and the risk of head and neck cancer
…cancers, diagnosed between 2001 and 2007, with 762 women and 2745 men randomly selected from the general population as controls. Flour dust exposure was estimated from each person's job history using a job-exposure matrix…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Asbestos awareness among the residents of St. Kitts and Nevis: a cross-sectional study
…knowledge, and attitudes toward asbestos management. We found that 70% of residents of St. Kitts and Nevis considered asbestos exposure to be a general public concern and believed the government should prevent it. Of all participants…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Re Ferrante et al (2020). Mortality and mesothelioma incidence among chrysotile asbestos miners in Balangero, Italy: A cohort study
…incomplete, explanation. Lung cancer SMRs versus the general population were almost identical: 1.14 (95% CI 0.81 to 1.55) and 1.16 (0.87 to 1.52). By cumulative exposure (fiber/mL-years), Pira…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Pleural small cell carcinoma with massive pleural effusion: A case report
…staining tests showed small cell carcinoma instead, and further scans found no tumor in the lung. Because of the patient's old age and poor general condition, chemotherapy was not given. Only the fluid was drained…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Iron from a geochemical viewpoint. Understanding toxicity/pathogenicity mechanisms in iron-bearing minerals with a special attention to mineral fibers
…the role of iron in erionite's toxicity is controversial. The authors stated that a general model of how iron leads to adverse effects is still missing. They concluded that the crystal chemistry and surface chemistry…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
A Single Liver Metastasis from Pleural Biphasic Mesothelioma
…he had weight loss, cough, chest pain, fever and general malaise. A chest CT scan showed a 6.7 by 6.5 cm mass in the right upper lobe, of probable pleural origin, and numerous pleural…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Assessment of physicians' proficiency in reading chest radiographs for pneumoconiosis, based on a 60-film examination set with two factors constituting eight indices
…based on the participants' specialty: radiology, respiratory medicine, industrial medicine, public health, general internal medicine, and miscellaneous physicians. Our analysis revealed that radiologists had a significant difference in the mean scores of X3, X5, and X8…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Anthophyllite asbestos: state of the science review
…a standardized incidence ratio of 67 (95% CI 18 to 172) for mesothelioma in heavily exposed men who had worked at least 3 months, compared with the eastern Finland general population. In one reviewed rat study…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Risk factors for malignant mesothelioma in people with no known exposure to asbestos
…histories. Over 9 years, 38 cases and 134 hospital controls with conditions unrelated to asbestos (65 with other cancers, 69 with general medical conditions) were interviewed about their histories. An industrial hygienist, unaware of diagnoses, coded…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Occupational characterization of workers exposed to asbestos: an integrative review
…the Virtual Health Library, 23 studies published from 2015 to 2020 were selected and evaluated. The occupations that showed greater illness due to exposure to asbestos were general asbestos workers (40%), miners (22%), and textile workers…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Impact of low-dose computed tomography screening on lung cancer mortality among asbestos-exposed workers
…deaths from all cancers or from malignant neoplasm of the pleura. Deaths from pleural cancer were higher than in the general population in both groups. The authors concluded that taking part in screening was associated with…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Management of malignant pleural mesothelioma - part 1: epidemiology, diagnosis, and staging : Consensus of the Austrian Mesothelioma Interest Group (AMIG)
…2005. The authors noted uncertainty about cases not reported to AUVA. They stated that current European guidelines recommend no general screening, and that blood biomarkers give too many false-positive results to be reliable screening tools…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
From Awareness to Action: The Community of Sarnia Mobilizes to Protect its Workers from Occupational Disease
…workers came mainly from two companies, the Holmes Foundry and Fiberglas Canada. Almost every respondent said publicity focused on asbestos alone rather than on workplace carcinogens in general. Labor activists said that, through the occupational clinic…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Molecular Fingerprints of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: Not Just a Matter of Genetic Alterations
…in malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM): the chemical controls that switch genes on and off without changing the DNA sequence. The review discussed asbestos exposure in general and did not separate fiber types. Citing earlier sequencing studies…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Asbestos and the lung: highlights of a detrimental relationship
…pleural diseases. They described a study in which asbestos workers employed for at least 20 years in places with moderate to high exposure had a 10-fold higher lung cancer risk than the general population. Another…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Meta-Analysis of the Association between Asbestos Exposure and Esophageal Cancer
…ranges below are also 95% intervals). The authors described this as exposed participants being 1.28 times more likely to die from esophageal cancer than the general population. The pooled SMR was significantly raised for chrysotile…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Overview of occupational cancer in painters in Korea
…however, the elevated cancer risks reported in existing literature are not doubled in either lung or bladder cancer in commercial painters relative to the risks of these cancers in the general population. Based on our review…