973 results for “General Electric”, page 16 of 49
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Mortality among employees of an Ontario asbestos-cement factory
…cancers, and 17 deaths from mesothelioma; the factory control subjects had mortality rates similar to the general population. The cell-type distribution of the lung cancers was similar to that occurring in middle-aged smokers. Cumulative…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Asbestos examinations for construction workers
…Construction workers had to be exposed above the action level (0.1 f/cc) for 30 or more days per year to get a free exam, unlike general industry workers. They had no x-ray schedule…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
A study of lung cancer mortality in asbestos workers: Doll, 1955
…mice by asbestos, were circulated in confidence to its scientists, but being unpublished were unknown to the general scientific community. There were also cancer mortality data recorded for populations of exposed asbestos workers, but these were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Industrial hygiene review of three manufacturing facilities in Senegal: findings and key questions
…name the type of asbestos used. Average noise levels were above 93 dBA. General dust levels averaged approximately 2.5 milligrams per cubic meter, against a background of about 0.1. Respiratory protection was mostly dust…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Human disease consequences of fiber exposures: a review of human lung pathology and fiber burden data
…medians, except one study reporting only a mean), extremely high compared with general-population background levels. The reviewed studies indicated that mesothelioma may occur with fiber burdens considerably lower than those needed to produce asbestosis. One…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Cancer of the gastrointestinal tract and exposure to asbestos in drinking water among lighthouse keepers (Norway)
…The standardized incidence ratio (SIR) was calculated as the number of new cancer cases divided by the expected number based on five-year age and sex specific incidence rates in the general rural population of Norway…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
A hazardous society? Individual versus community responsibility in cancer prevention. Third annual Matthew B. Rosenhaus Lecture
…Citing earlier studies, the author stated that non-smokers in the asbestos industry had not been shown to have an appreciable lung cancer risk compared with the general population, but did show an increased risk of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Assessing quality of life when planning and evaluating worker notification programs: two case examples
…action. Signs of minimizing the risk were reported by 34.7% of nonattenders and 15.8% of attenders. The second case was a questionnaire about workplace carcinogens in general, returned by 369 paper industry workers. Over…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Commentary on: Comparison of chest digital tomosynthesis and chest radiography for detection of asbestos-related pleuropulmonary disease
…a slight increase in radiation dose, described as possibly one to two times that of a conventional chest radiograph. Citing other published work about lung nodules in general, not asbestos disease, the author noted that DTS…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Descriptive analysis of the respiratory health status of persons exposed to Libby amphibole asbestos
…Questionnaire total score was 38.5 (0 best, 100 worst), versus 8.41 in a Spanish general-population sample. Ever-smokers scored significantly worse on the questionnaire. The authors noted the cross-sectional design and insensitive…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Maintenance work and asbestos-related cancers in the refinery and petrochemical sector
…ratios (SMRs, which compare observed deaths with those expected in the general population) were below 100. The author noted that refinery workers as a group have had lower lung cancer risk than the general population, so…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Cancer incidence among marine engineers, a population-based study (Iceland)
…8) were observed when a 40-year lag time was applied. The engineers' smoking habits were similar to those in a sample of the general population. The predictive value for lung cancer was 1.03. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Malignant mesothelioma after radiation treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma
…lymphoma. The risk was almost 30-fold increased in Hodgkin lymphoma patients treated with irradiation compared with the general population. Although histology and survival of the mesothelioma cases were comparable with cases from the general population…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
The silent epidemic: asbestosis and related diseases
…20% to 50% of asbestosis patients. It stated that asbestos workers who smoke have a 10 times greater chance of developing lung cancer than smokers in the general population, and a 75 to 100 times greater…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Chemical characterization of asbestos body cores by electron microprobe analysis
…show no marked chemical degradation even after prolonged biologic residence, whereas chrysotile asbestos cores are markedly degraded. Cores of asbestos bodies from the general population, from individuals with no known exposure, may consist of degraded chrysotile…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Adenomatoid tumors in the tunica albuginea of the testis
…type. When he was seen 27 years after surgery, he had a normal testis and excellent general health. The author regarded the tumor as benign and stated that its mesothelial origin was clear to the author…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Rapporteur's Report Session 6: risk assessment of asbestos and other fibrous mineral particulates
…mesothelioma reported that 2 of 2907 deaths in taconite worker cohorts (0.07%) were from mesothelioma, compared with 0.17% of deaths among US males in the general population. The rapporteurs compared two studies of Libby…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Attributable risk in men in two French case-control studies on mesothelioma and asbestos
…B. After weighting subjects according to distribution of socio-economic status in the general population for controls and according to distribution of socio-economic status of cases registered by the French National Mesothelioma Surveillance Program, re…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Radiographic asbestosis is not a prerequisite for asbestos-associated lung cancer in Ontario asbestos-cement workers
…hired before 1960 who had at least one chest X-ray available. Deaths were tracked to the end of 1985 and compared with the general population of Ontario. A single certified reader classified the X-rays…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Immunohistochemical staining of ras oncogene product in neoplastic and non-neoplastic mesothelial tissues: immunoreactivity for N-ras and lack of immunohistochemical staining for Ha-ras and K-ras
…non-cancerous) pleural mesothelium, 20 of which showed hyperplasia. They used antibodies against ras protein in general (pan-ras) and against three specific forms: Ha-ras, K-ras and N-ras. The article does not report…