985 results for “General Electric”, page 20 of 50
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Immunohistochemical reactivity in mesothelioma and adenocarcinoma: a stepwise logistic regression analysis
…tissue from 103 malignant mesotheliomas from two Swedish hospitals, Malmo General and Huddinge University, and from 43 adenocarcinoma metastases of the pleura from Malmo General Hospital autopsy files. A monoclonal anti-CEA antibody stained 70% of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Primary diffuse malignant peritoneal mesothelioma: case report and update of therapy
…on light microscopy, histochemistry, and immunohistochemistry. Patient had no further treatment because of her poor general conditions. She died 4 months later. Update of treatment is briefly described with particular attention to multimodality approach (surgery, chemotherapy…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Mesothelioma in an individual following exposure to crocidolite-containing gaskets as a teenager
…per gram of deparaffinized (wax-removed) wet tissue. Two of the authors' laboratories use 20 or fewer per gram of wet tissue as the general-population level. Electron microscopy at 15,000 times magnification detected only…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Update of the Texaco mortality study 1947-93: Part II
…colleagues in their update of the Texaco mortality study. The author argued that refinery workers as a group have had lower lung cancer rates than the general population, so maintenance workers exposed to asbestos should be…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Hazards of white asbestos
…current or ex-smokers, against less than 0.5% of women. Compared with the general population, lung cancer mortality was estimated at about 17-fold in men and four-fold in women. People tended to be…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
French agency agrees to publication of asbestos report
…Marimbert, head of the ministry's department of labour relations, to INSERM's director general stated that INSERM representatives had decided not to publish the final report at INSERM Editions, and it demanded a reversal. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
An association between postoperative radiotherapy for primary breast cancer in 11 National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) studies and the subsequent appearance of pleural mesothelioma
…Using national registry (SEER) rates, 0.80 cases were expected among irradiated women, a relative risk of 3.74 compared with the general population. Among non-irradiated women, 1.13 cases were expected and none occurred…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Asbestos-related cancers in refinery workers in the Australian petroleum industry
…77 (95% confidence interval = 1.95-6.59). The incidence of lung cancer was significantly lower than that in the general male population. Lung cancer incidence was higher in maintenance workers than in nonmaintenance workers…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1978
Awkward medicolegal problems in asbestos-induced disease. Problems in law
…to mesothelioma, asbestos bodies in the lungs of ordinary people, mesothelioma without a known cause in the general population, and the combined effect of smoking in lung cancer all made causation hard to decide. He noted…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Adenomatoid hyperplasia of mucous salivary glands. Report of two cases
…lesion in the right soft palate with recurrent swelling and discomfort that got worse with swallowing and chewing. It was removed under general anesthesia. The specimen measured 0.9 x 0.8 x 0.6 cm…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Combined effect of asbestos and smoking on mortality from lung cancer and mesothelioma in factory workers
…Deaths were tracked to 1980. There was no unexposed comparison group, so lung cancer deaths were compared with numbers expected from death rates in the general population of the region, adjusted for smoking. After this adjustment…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Flex-rigid pleuroscopy under local anesthesia in patients with dry pleural dissemination on radiography
…mesothelioma in 2 and chronic inflammation in 3. The remaining patient was suspected of malignant pleural mesothelioma and was diagnosed with it after a second biopsy under general anesthesia. Two dry-group patients had minor complications…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
Chrysotile asbestos: health effects
…at the workplace for 50 years) resulted in unacceptable health hazards. The workers' general health was comparable to that of Quebec Province's population. The author stated that the Rockville quarries contain much less chrysotile than…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Malignant mesothelioma after environmental exposure to blue asbestos
…or as employees of CSR or ABA, the cohort was 4890 (2187 men, 2703 women). Residents were exposed through general contamination from milling, mill tailings used on roads, yards and playgrounds, and household contact with workers…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Causes of death in a cohort of 260 plutonium workers
…in the admittedly biased self-selected cohort of the first 260 deceased participants in the USTUR revealed, in general, no apparently elevated causes of death except for six cases of mesothelioma and six cases of astrocytoma…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Canada, chrysotile and cancer: Health Canada's Asbestos International Expert Panel report
…mesothelioma and asbestosis. Describing other studies, the author reported a general consensus that chrysotile is less potent than amphiboles for mesothelioma, by a highly uncertain amount. The author called the evidence of a difference for lung…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Efflux of reduced glutathione after exposure of human lung epithelial cells to crocidolite asbestos
…hour in that medium, so the authors suggested it was released from the cells continuously. They found no sign of general membrane damage. Activity of the enzyme gamma glutamylcysteine synthetase fell by 47%, while four other…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
Lung disease related to exposure to asbestos
…suggestive, and four to five as conclusive. Lung cancer was described as about ten times more frequent in asbestos workers than in the general population. Mesothelioma was described as following exposure as short as 3 months…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
A novel approach: transumbilical endoscopic exploration and biopsy for patients with unknown ascites
…Medical University, Harbin, China. After the patient underwent general anesthesia and artificial pneumoperitoneum, a 1.0-cm trocar was placed at the umbilical region. After initial observation of the whole peritoneal cavity with a laparoscope, a…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Solid cancer mortality associated with chronic external radiation exposure at the French atomic energy commission and nuclear fuel company
…the mean cumulative dose was 12.1 mSv. Mortality rates for all causes and all solid cancers were both significantly lower in this cohort than in the general population. A significant excess of deaths from pleural…