973 results for “General Electric”, page 8 of 49
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Malignant mesothelioma metastatic to the oral region and latest topics (Review)
…review by authors from Osaka Dental University in Japan. It covered malignant mesothelioma in general and focused on cases where the cancer had spread (metastasised) to the mouth. The authors searched the PubMed database and the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Occupational and work-related respiratory disease attributed to cleaning products
This study analysed work-related respiratory disease reported to the UK THOR surveillance network by chest physicians (1989–2017), occupational physicians (1999–2017) and general practitioners (2006–2017). It concerns cleaning products; asbestos cases were excluded…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Malignant mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis: a atypical presentation of a rare scrotal tumour
…old man with malignant mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis, the lining around the testis. He saw his general practitioner about a painless, enlarged lymph node in his right groin, with no scrotal swelling or testicular pain…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
A Bayesian Model and Stochastic Exposure (Dose) Estimation for Relative Exposure Risk Comparison Involving Asbestos-Containing Dropped Ceiling Panel Installation and Maintenance Tasks
…study measured airborne fibers while workers simulated tasks with asbestos-containing ceiling panels. The authors then used statistical models to estimate exposures for ceiling specialists, general tradesmen, maintenance workers, do-it-yourself persons such as homeowners…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Sharing different perspectives to understand asbestos-induced carcinogenesis: A comment to Jiang et al. (2016)
…Cancer Sci (2016) that have inspired a more general comment on how the research on asbestos should take advantage of the different existing multidisciplinary perspectives so to flow into a final comprehensive model of asbestos‐induced…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Selected Cancers in Petroleum Refinery Workers
…meta-analysis pooled 36 cohort-based studies of petroleum refinery workers to estimate the risk of 11 cancers compared with background rates, looking at refinery work in general rather than specific substances. Across 18 mesothelioma studies…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Peritoneal mesothelioma and asbestos exposure: a population-based case-control study in Lombardy, Italy
…to its rarity, PeM has rarely been investigated in community-based studies. We examined the association between asbestos exposure and PeM risk in a general population in Lombardy, Italy. From the regional mesothelioma registry, we selected…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Increased Standardised Incidence Ratio of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma in Taiwanese Asbestos Workers: A 29-Year Retrospective Cohort Study
…including MPM (ICD-9 code: 163), were obtained from the Taiwan Cancer Registry. SIRs were calculated based on comparison with the incidence rate of the general population of Taiwan and adjusted for age, calendar period, sex…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Mortality Update of a Cohort of Canadian Petroleum Workers
…petroleum company through December 31, 2006. Standardized mortality ratios were generated for all-cause and specific cause mortality. All cause and all cancer mortality were favorable compared with the general Canadian population. Cancers of previous interest…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Timely diagnosis of primary pericardial mesothelioma
This was a brief case report, published as an image article, by authors at Cheng Hsin General Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan. It described one 66-year-old man with shortness of breath and swelling of both…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Standardized Incidence Ratio and Standardized Mortality Ratio of Malignant Mesothelioma in a Worker Cohort Using Employment Insurance Database in Korea
…calculated using the indirect standardization method. There were 641 malignant mesotheliomas that occurred; the SIR was significantly higher than the general population (men 1.36, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.24-1.48, women 1.44…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1933
The Effects Of Inhaled Mineral Dusts
This 1933 article, by the director of the Saranac Laboratory, was a paper presented before a congress. It was a general discussion of how inhaled mineral dusts, mainly silica, asbestos and coal, affect the lungs, not…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1970
Peritoneal mesothelioma. A report of 4 cases
…reported four cases of peritoneal mesothelioma, a tumour of the lining of the abdomen. All four were seen within 12 months of each other at the Southern General Hospital, Glasgow. The patients were a man who…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1958
Rheumatoid lung changes associated with asbestosis
…of rheumatoid lung disease. The patient was a 49-year-old man with rheumatoid arthritis who had worked as a general labourer in an asbestos factory from January 1952 to January 1956. The article does not…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Mortality and cancer morbidity in a cohort of Canadian petroleum workers
…1964 and 1994 and worked at least one year. Their records were linked to national death and cancer registry data and compared with the general Canadian population. The authors also estimated exposure to hydrocarbon solvents/fuels…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Updated mortality among diverse operating segments of a petroleum company
…in the earlier study. Analyses used standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) to compare worker cause specific mortality with the Canadian general population. Duration of employment and latency analyses were performed for causes previously found to be increased…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1929
Clinical aspects of pulmonary asbestosis
…read at the 1929 Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association in Manchester, described asbestos workers seen in a general practice in Leeds. In 1926 the author and a colleague noticed that several patients with chest…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Asbestos in strange places: two case reports of mesothelioma among merchant seamen
The authors described two cases of malignant pleural mesothelioma in Greek merchant seamen. Both came from a mesothelioma registry in Greece and were seen at Sismanoglio General Hospital, Athens. The first was a 71-year-old…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Pathological recognition of diffuse malignant mesothelioma of the pleura: the significance of the historical perspective as regards this signal tumor
…but we do know that there were so few cases before 1930 that the very existence of the disease was not accepted in general before 1930 and not accepted by all pathologists even up until 1960…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Dust levels in an asbestos-cement factory: problem solving
…Isasbest Ltd., an asbestos-cement pipe and sheet factory in Nahariya, Israel, written by the company's general manager. The plant employed approximately 340 workers, and its products averaged 90% cement and 10% asbestos. The article…