973 results for “General Electric”, page 13 of 49
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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…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Analysis of mismatch repair (MMR) proteins expression in a series of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) patients
…or smoking. Median survival for the whole group was 15 months (95% confidence interval 13.5 to 18.8 months). Survival was longer in patients with better performance status (general fitness), the epithelioid tumor type, and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Identification of Potential Hub Genes and Therapeutic Drugs in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma by Integrated Bioinformatics Analysis
…KIF20A, AURKA, CEP55 and ASPM. They then checked survival in a general mesothelioma dataset in the GEPIA database, which has no separate pleural mesothelioma dataset. For all 10 genes, high expression was reported as a risk…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
The Association Between the FTO rs9939609 Variant and Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Risk: A Case-Control Study
…had been exposed to asbestos, recruited between April 2014 and February 2016. They compared them with 149 controls from the general population, recruited from Cairo suburbs with known heavy asbestos exposure. Asbestos levels were not measured…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Commentary: Asbestos exposure and mesothelioma risk
…used the statistical relationship between the average lung burden of asbestos particles and mesothelioma death rates in the general population to predict rates in younger people who began work after asbestos was no longer in use…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Germline mutations in DNA repair genes predispose asbestos-exposed patients to malignant pleural mesothelioma
…lifetime asbestos exposure had been estimated from interviews about exposure at work, at home and in the general environment. The authors sequenced 94 cancer-related genes from blood samples and compared the results with 96 Italian…
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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…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Yellow Nail Syndrome with Bilateral Pleural Plaques and Diffuse Pleural Thickening: A Mimic of Asbestos Related Disease
…death was yellow nail syndrome complicated by lobar pneumonia and diffuse pleural fibrosis, listed as the immediate cause. He had smoked heavily and worked as a general manager, policeman, clothing design director and dark room technician…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
The association between occupational asbestos exposure with the risk of incidence and mortality from prostate cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis
…methodological quality appeared to yield elevated SIRs or SMRs. This systematic review and meta-analysis provides evidence that men with occupational asbestos exposure have a PCa incidence and mortality similar to that of the general population…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Near Missed Case of Occupational Pleural Malignant Mesothelioma, a Case Report and Latest Therapeutic Options
…lung. She received radiotherapy and chemotherapy with cisplatin and pemetrexed. After the third course of chemotherapy, fluid appeared around the other lung and her general condition worsened. A detailed work history, taken only in February 2022…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Retrospective Exposure Assessment Methods Used in Occupational Human Health Risk Assessment: A Systematic Review
…for the asbestos part, because the general PubMed search returned too many articles. They included 44 original, peer-reviewed English-language articles published from 2010 onward, covering assessment in general and asbestos specifically. The review reports…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Biological mechanisms of non-linear dose-response for respirable mineral fibers
…shape the relationship between exposure and disease risk. The paper described five general mechanisms that could create exposure thresholds and listed six positive feedback loops involving reactive oxygen species and the inflammasome. The author proposed that…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Single-institution experience of intensity-modulated radiotherapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma at University of Catania
…Seven patients completed radiotherapy. One stopped early when their general condition worsened and died two months later from local spread of the disease. At a median follow-up of 16 months (range 6 to 23 months…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
Occupational asbestos exposure and urinary bladder cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis
…observed no difference in the subgroup analysis for countries and no direct publication bias evidence. There is evidence that workers with occupational asbestos exposure have a bladder cancer incidence and mortality similar to the general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Environmental risk factors for liver cancer and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
…not name fiber types. In a French cohort of 2024 asbestos-exposed workers, male workers had more liver cancer than the general population in Calvados (SIR 1.85, 95% CI 1.09–2.92); among females…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
The association among ferruginous body, uncoated fibers, asbestos and non-asbestos fibers in lung tissue in terms of length
…an important index of asbestos exposure, uncoated fibers observed with phase-contrast microscope might be another index especially in such cases with relatively low exposure due to their history of living in a general environment. However…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Public health risks from asbestos cement roofing
…cement plants, and that another cited study did not control for confounders. The authors concluded it is biologically plausible that asbestos roofing can cause asbestos-related disease in the general public. Citing the precautionary principle, they…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Mortality in a cohort of asbestos-exposed workers undergoing health surveillance
…to asbestos, enrolled in a PHSP in FVG between the early 1990s and 2008, with that of the general population of FVG and Italy. Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMR), with 95% Confidence Interval (95% CI), for all…
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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…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
How to Judge Safety Crime: Lessons From the Eternit Asbestos Maxi-Trials
…illness was caused by it. The author also cited epidemiological evidence that male Casale Monferrato workers were 545 times more likely to die of asbestosis than the general male population of Piedmont. The author concluded that…