973 results for “General Electric”, page 14 of 49
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Programmed cell death 1 ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression is associated with poor prognosis of malignant pleural mesothelioma patients with good performance status
…was not statistically significant once other factors were taken into account. Among the 129 patients with an ECOG performance-status score below 2 (better general condition), PD-L1 positivity remained linked to worse survival after adjustment…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Talc exposure and risk of stomach cancer: Systematic review and meta-analysis of occupational cohort studies
…Across all forms of talc, the pooled relative risk of stomach cancer, compared with the general population, was 1.21 (95% CI 1.03 to 1.42). For talc not containing asbestiform fibers the figure was…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Second primary malignancies in patients with hidradenocarcinoma: a US national database study
…rare sweat-gland-related skin cancer. The authors identified 351 cases diagnosed from 1973 to 2015. They compared later cancers with the number expected in a matched general population. Overall, 72 patients developed a second cancer…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
Pleural mesothelioma risk in the construction industry: a case-control study in Italy, 2000-2018
…for blue-collar occupations (1993 cases, OR 4.52), including bricklayers (988 cases, OR 7.05), general construction workers (320 cases, OR 4.66), plumbers and pipe fitters (305 cases, OR 9.13), painters (104 cases…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Asbestos disease expert wins right to obtain information held on him by lobbyist
…of chrysotile (white) asbestos and asbestos cement products. Bridle complained to the General Medical Council that Rudd had falsified the health risks of chrysotile in expert reports. The report stated that the GMC dismissed the complaint…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Clustering of malignant pleural mesothelioma in asbestos factories: a subgroup analysis in a 29-year follow-up study to identify high-risk industries in Taiwan
…of malignant pleural mesothelioma (17 men, 1 woman) in eight factories. Each factory's rate was compared with Taiwan's general-population pleural cancer rate, used as a proxy, of 1.04 per million person-years…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
USTUR Special Session Roundtable-US Transuranium and Uranium Registries (USTUR): A Five-decade Follow-up of Plutonium and Uranium Workers
…No counts or mesothelioma type were given. Another participant recalled that Los Alamos analyzed about 150 former workers and over 1,100 general population samples. That participant recalled no difference in deposition between people living near…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Gender differences in pleural mesothelioma occurrence in Lombardy and Piedmont, Italy
…exposure in men translated into a 7 to 10 year advancement in mesothelioma occurrence. They noted that exposure information was not available for the general population, so rates by actual asbestos exposure could not be calculated.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Mortality among U.S. military participants at eight aboveground nuclear weapons test series
…2010. The authors compared their death rates with those of U.S. men in general and tested whether estimated radiation doses were linked to causes of death. Overall deaths were slightly below expected (standardized mortality ratio…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1928
Pulmonary Asbestosis
…of pulmonary asbestosis. A woman began to cough soon after starting work in an asbestos factory at age 13. Her general health did not suffer until 26, she was totally incapacitated five years later, and she…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Setting new standards for epidemiological research on mesothelioma
…control study. Controls were resected lung cancer cases, who represent less advanced disease and would be expected to have higher fibre burdens than the general population. Sample retrieval among controls was 262/420 (62.4%). They…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
The Public Health Value of Opioid Litigation
…not prompt changes such as an outright ban on asbestos. For opioids, the author reported settlements rising from $19.5 million (27 state attorneys general against Purdue Pharma, 2007) to $270 million (Oklahoma against Purdue, 2019)…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2024
Asbestos and disease - a public health success story?
…Swedish study showed that the general ban and other measures have decreased the risk of malignancies due to occupational exposure. The effect of the bans on adverse effects in the general population has yet to be…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
Synchronous Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma and Sigmoid Adenocarcinoma: a Challenging Clinical Entity
…the final diagnosis was sigmoid adenocarcinoma with synchronous MPM. The patient was started on palliative chemotherapy (capecitabine) without active management of MPM because of her general condition. She was followed up with a good clinical course…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Kinesin family members KIF11 and KIF23 as potential therapeutic targets in malignant pleural mesothelioma
…measurements are reported in this article. Gene-activity testing showed both genes highly active in most of 13 tumor samples from Toronto General Hospital and in four mesothelioma cell lines, but low in a normal mesothelial…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Tissue burden evaluation of elongated mineral particles in two individuals with mesothelioma and whose work history included manufacturing tile
…1, and 1944 and 42 in two Case 2 samples. The laboratory's general-population upper limit for lung tissue was 20 or fewer ferruginous bodies per gram of wet tissue. Lung asbestos fiber counts, per…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Occupational Asbestos Exposure and Kidney Cancer: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Cohort Studies
…mortality studies and 59 278 in incidence studies, with 468 kidney cancer deaths and 160 new kidney cancer cases. Each study compared the workers with the general population. Overall, kidney cancer deaths among exposed workers were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Author reply: 'Response to: Pleural abnormalities in the Framingham Heart Study: prevalence and CT image features' by Araki et al
…earlier study found pleural abnormalities in 1.5% of the cohort, which they suggested could be an index of asbestos exposure in the general population. They wrote that every case was confirmed by at least two…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Environmental and ecological factors of stomach cancer incidence and mortality: a systematic review study on ecological studies
…keepers exposed to asbestos in drinking water. The review reported that this study found a positive correlation between ingested asbestos and gastrointestinal cancer in general and stomach cancer specifically. The review gave no figures for it…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1964
Asbestos and malignancy
…Gloyne found bronchial carcinoma in 14% of a series of asbestosis cases. Doll calculated a lung cancer risk ten times that of the general population in workers exposed for 20 years or more. Braun and Truan…