985 results for “General Electric”, page 31 of 50
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Pleural mesothelioma and occupational and non-occupational asbestos exposure: a case-control study with quantitative risk assessment
…Monferrato (north west Italy) is an area with an exceptionally high incidence of mesothelioma caused by asbestos contamination at work and in the general environment from the asbestos-cement Eternit plant that was operational until 1986…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
New Perspectives on Diagnosis and Therapy of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
…with an incidence that varies significantly within and among different countries around the world. It develops in about one to two persons per million of the general population, leading to thousands of deaths every year worldwide…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Well-Differentiated Papillary Mesothelioma With Two Synchronous Serous Gynaecologic Carcinomas in a 62-Year-Old Woman: Lessons Learned for the Gynaecologic Surgeon
…of WDPM in a woman with synchronous serous carcinomas of the gynaecologic tract and highlight lessons learned for general gynaecologists and gynaecologic oncologists alike. A 62-year-old woman was referred for assessment and management of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Asbestos in High-Risk Communities: Public Health Implications
…lung cancer, and asbestosis-are well known as occupational diseases. As industrial asbestos use is eliminated, ARDs within the general community from para-occupational, environmental, and natural exposures are more prominent. ARD clusters have been studied…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Pleural plaques by inhalation of asbestos fibers
…up to 3 to 58% of workers who were exposed to asbestos fiber, and 0.5 to 8% in the general population. The objective of this article is to present a case report of a patient…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Digestive cancers and occupational asbestos exposure: incidence study in a cohort of asbestos plant workers
…occupationally exposed to asbestos. The incidence of digestive cancers was calculated from 1 January 1978 to 31 December 2009 and compared with levels among the local general population using Standardised Incidence Ratios (SIRs). Asbestos exposure was…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Asbestos fibers are mutagenic after all: new signs of orthodoxy for a paradoxical group of carcinogens
…held that they lacked clear genotoxic potential. He summarized earlier work. There was general agreement that asbestos fibers induced aneuploidy and chromosome breaks. Results on sister chromatid exchanges disagreed. Mammalian cell specific-locus assays had reported…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Sarcomas in organ allograft recipients
…sarcomas were 7.4% of cancers. Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) made up 5.7%, and other sarcomas (OS) 1.7% a much higher proportion than in the general population. KS was most common in Arab, black…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1931
Recent Views on Pneumonoconioses
Silicosis has been intensively studied since it was isolated from other diseases caused by dust. These studies have shown that silicosis may be fairly advanced without seriously impairing general health; it may, however, itself lead to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Occupational and environmental medicine: moving the factory fence or hedging our bets?
…medicine evolved out of concern for the effect of work hazards on health. The experienced gained in considering such hazards has been extended to understanding general risks in the environment. As we look toward the future…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Genotoxic mechanisms of asbestos fibers: role of extranuclear targets
…fibers are carcinogenic to both humans and experimental animals. The continued discoveries of exposure routes whereby the general public is exposed to asbestos suggest a long-term, low-dose exposure for a large number of people…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Oncogenes and tumor-suppressor genes in mesothelioma--a synopsis
…effective. Therefore, a key to reducing the mortality rate of this neoplasm is knowledge of the general sequence of genetic events between initiation of mesothelial cells and the emergence of the metastatic tumor cells. Unfortunately, relatively…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Surgical treatment of peritoneal carcinomatosis: current treatment modalities
…hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC). The purpose of this study is to summarize the treatment outcomes and general considerations regarding definitions and staging systems of current CRS and HIPEC modalities in malignant peritoneal mesothelioma and in secondary…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Transcriptional profiling of mesothelioma using microarrays
…lacking. Large-scale transcriptional profiling using microarrays is frequently a part of studies to explore gene expression patterns in cancer and other diseases. In general, microarray based experiments can facilitate the identification of tumor molecular markers…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Asbestos content in the lymph nodes of nonoccupationally exposed individuals
…However, no information exists as to asbestos content in lymph nodes from the general population. The study cohort consisted of 21 individuals previously defined as nonoccupationally exposed to asbestos. Tissue burden of asbestos obtained from lung…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
The costs and effects of screening for cancer among asbestos-exposed workers
…We have reviewed the data on the general effectiveness of screening for the two most common cancers found in these workers (lung cancer and colo-rectal cancer) and have compared the relative benefits expected from screening…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Primary malignant deciduoid peritoneal mesothelioma: a report of the cytohistological and immunohistochemical appearances
…deciduoid mesothelioma (MDM) is a rare variant of epithelioid mesothelioma. This type of tumor might be associated with the asbestos exposure and carries a poor prognosis in general. MDM was first described by Nascimento et al…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Hierarchical regression for multiple comparisons in a case-control study of occupational risks for lung cancer
…suffer from false positive findings. Semi-Bayes adjustment methods have sometimes been used to address this issue. Hierarchical regression is a more general approach, including Semi-Bayes adjustment as a special case, that aims at improving…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Asbestos exposure indices
…lung cancer, and mesothelioma in both humans and animals is well established, and asbestos exposures in the occupational and general community environment are recognized as significant hazards. However, it has not been possible to establish realistic…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Pleural mesothelioma
…as localized or diffuse. Diffuse pleural mesotheliomas are invariably malignant. Although the frequency is low in the general population, it is more common in persons with a heavy occupational exposure to asbestos, and is considered as…