985 results for “General Electric”, page 21 of 50
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestos: a chronology of its origins and health effects
…by Leeds doctors. They reported that Dr Ian M D Grieve, a Leeds general practitioner in the 1920s, saw patients from a local factory that made insulation mattresses for steam engines from blue asbestos, which had…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Long-term pulmonary exposure to multi-walled carbon nanotubes promotes breast cancer metastatic cascades
…days, exposed mice had lung inflammation, granulomatous lesions and fibrosis, with no significant change in general health. Mouse breast cancer cells were then implanted in five mice per group. Tumour growth did not differ between groups…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
The combined effects of smoking and occupational or urban factors in relation to lung cancer
…risk in certain occupational groups, studies on general populations show that the effect of smoking is large compared with that of "urban" factors and there is no indication of any interaction between smoking and air pollution.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Nonoccupational exposure to chrysotile asbestos and the risk of lung cancer
…and crocidolite fibers per gram of dry lung. The laboratory's maximal general-population background for amosite plus crocidolite is 10,000 fibers per gram of dry lung. The second and third had asbestosis at autopsy…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1975
Review article. Asbestosis: a reassessment of the overall problem
…example, it reported a mesothelioma risk in insulation workers of 10 per 307, compared with 3 per 31,652 in the general population. The author stated that ingestion had not been shown to cause gastrointestinal cancer…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
Asbestos bodies and fibers in lung tissues
…lung from 14 people with pleural mesothelioma, 11 with severe occupational asbestosis with lung fibrosis and squamous carcinoma, and 52 unselected patients from the general population. By light microscopy, all unselected patients had a few asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Occupation and risk of stomach cancer in Poland
…between 1994 and 1996. Controls (n = 479) were randomly selected from the general population in Warsaw. Only a few occupations and industries were associated with significantly increased risks of stomach cancer. The most suggestive finding…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Asbestos associated tumours in car mechanics
…cancer register (1961-79, ages 20 to 69), and compared observed cases with the numbers expected from the general population. One mesothelioma was found in the cancer register and none in the death register. That man…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Report of the Advisory Committee on Asbestos Cancers to the Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer
…137 participants from 20 countries; the committee then reported on evidence since 1964. It answered general questions and recommended research. It stated that all major commercial asbestos types can cause lung carcinoma, with clear risk differences…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Primary mesothelioma of atrioventricular node: cause of sudden death
…by epithelial cells within dense fibrous tissue, which destroyed much of the conducting tissue. The author noted general agreement that this kind of lesion is congenital, meaning present from birth, but some disagreement about where it…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Updates on the cytogenetics and molecular genetics of bone and soft tissue tumors. Mesothelioma
…that article's methods, findings or conclusions. The chapter is a general overview of chromosome changes across many bone and soft tissue tumors and does not discuss asbestos. Outside its reference list, it mentions mesothelioma only…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Proxy respondents and the validity of occupational and other exposure data. The Selected Cancers Cooperative Study Group
…as correct. Proxy interviews were completed for 270 of the 310 men who died. Proxies reported general smoking history well: for ever having been a regular smoker, sensitivity and specificity were both 95 percent. Reporting of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Asbestos bodies
…protein coat. They cited their own separate analysis, which examined the cores of over 600 bodies from more than 80 patients in the general population and found that the cores were asbestos. In that analysis, 98…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Quantitative analysis of asbestos burden in a series of individuals with lung cancer and a history of exposure to asbestos
…Seventeen of the 20 cases were positive for ferruginous bodies (which were morphologically consistent with asbestos bodies). Five of these were found to have concentrations within the range used in our laboratory for the general population (
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
International classification trial of AIA set of 100 radiographs of asbestos workers
…the best estimate for each film. For small opacities in the lung tissue, the authors judged that differences between readers were not large compared with general variability in reading. Even so, the share of films each…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
Unsuspected exposure to asbestos and bronchogenic carcinoma
…lung cancer. None had asbestosis or had worked in asbestos manufacturing. Each man was matched by age with a male control from general hospitals in the same catchment area. Of the 201 men with cancer, 58…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Dysphagia due to mesothelioma infiltrating the oesophagus: palliative treatment
…found a tumour completely blocking it. A guide wire could not be passed through the stricture, so a tube was placed in the oesophagus under general anaesthetic via a gastrotomy. Afterwards she improved quickly, went home…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Malignant mesothelioma in British Columbia in 1982
…construction or insulation trades. In lung tissue from six men, chrysotile was within the general-population range, but amosite and crocidolite were raised about 300-fold on average; two men also had raised noncommercial amphiboles such…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Clinical impact of extrapleural pneumonectomy for malignant pleural mesothelioma
…afterward; the median mental score went from 45 (29 patients) to 19 at 24 months (10 patients), though general health stayed above baseline (20 versus 25). Respiratory-questionnaire scores returned to preoperative levels after 24 months…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Diagnosis and prognostic factors in malignant pleural mesothelioma: a retrospective analysis of sixty-five patients
…years. In the main statistical model, only early (stage I) disease and good performance status (a WHO measure of general functioning) were significantly linked to longer survival. Asbestos exposure was not a significant predictor of survival…