973 results for “General Electric”, page 9 of 49
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Risk of de novo cancers after transplantation: results from a cohort of 7217 kidney transplant recipients, Italy 1997-2009
…to dialysis or to study closure. The number of observed DNCs was compared to that expected in the general population of Italy through standardised incidence ratios (SIR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI). To identify risk factors…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Mortality among shipbreaking workers in Taiwan--a retrospective cohort study from 1985 to 2008
…from 1985 to 2008. The mortality ratios-standardized for age and calendar years-(SMRs) for various causes of deaths were calculated with reference to the general population of Taiwan. Among men workers, a statistically significant increased…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Lung cancer and mesothelioma risk assessment for a population environmentally exposed to asbestos
…city in Quebec, Canada, provided an opportunity to undertake a prospective cancer risk assessment in the general population exposed to these concentrations. Using an updated Berman and Crump dose-response model for asbestos exposure, we selected…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Electron microscope characteristics of inhaled chrysotile asbestos fibre
This study described how chrysotile asbestos looks under the electron microscope in human lung tissue. The author examined specimens from about 300 lungs: general population groups, people with pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma and their controls, and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Global corporate policies and international "double standards" in occupational and environmental health
…in others, using asbestos in Brazil as the main example. The author reported that General Motors still used asbestos engine gaskets in Brazil, although it had stopped using them in North America five years earlier. At…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Lung cancer and mesothelioma in the pleura and peritoneum among Swedish insulation workers
…some years after the exposure had ended. In a cohort study the cancer morbidity and cause of death was investigated in 248 insulation workers and compared with the corresponding morbidity and mortality in the general population…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Collegium Ramazzini statement on the Tokyo Declaration banning asbestos
…short editorial, not a research study. It was written by the President and Secretary General of the Collegium Ramazzini and published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine. It reported that in November 2004, participants in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Absence of evidence for a significant background incidence of diffuse malignant mesothelioma apart from asbestos exposure
…1940s. One must conclude that the background level of diffuse malignant mesothelioma in Europe and in the United States prior to 1930 was extremely low. No case was detected at the Massachusetts General Hospital until 1946.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1970
The radiological manifestations of malignant pleural mesothelioma
…was a case series. The authors reviewed the hospital charts and chest X-rays of 10 patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma seen at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston from 1960 to 1967. There were 8 men…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Maintenance work and asbestos-related cancers in the refinery and petrochemical sector
…are at increased risk of lung cancer. The author noted that refinery and petrochemical workers overall have lower lung cancer rates than the general population, with one review reporting lung cancer mortality at 77% of the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Use of the posterior pericardium to cover the bronchial stump after right extrapleural pneumonectomy
…a study of asbestos exposure. The author, a thoracic surgeon at Toronto General Hospital, described a way to cover the stapled end (stump) of the right main bronchus after right extrapleural pneumonectomy. This is an operation…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Malignant mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis. A clinicopathologic analysis of 11 cases with review of the literature
…was a case series with a review of earlier published reports. The authors, from Maine Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital, described 11 patients with malignant mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis, the lining around the testis…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Cancer morbidity and quartz exposure in Swedish iron foundries
This retrospective cohort study compared cancer incidence from 1958 to 2004 among 3,045 men employed over one year at ten Swedish iron foundries with general Swedish population rates. The authors estimated workers' cumulative respirable quartz…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Update of a prospective study of mortality and cancer incidence in the Australian petroleum industry
…to 31 December 1996, comparing their deaths and cancers with national rates. Men's overall death rate was below the general population's (SMR 0.68, 95% CI 0.63 to 0.73). Their overall cancer…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Malignant mesothelioma 2008
…been studied in recent trials for its effects on disease free and overall survival This review provides a general overview of malignant mesothelioma with a summary of the most significant articles from within the past year…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Occupational exposure to carcinogens and risk of lung cancer: results from The Netherlands cohort study
…dust, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and welding fumes) in a prospective cohort study among the general population, and to estimate the proportion of lung cancer cases attributable to these occupational exposures. A prospective cohort study on diet…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Utility of BAP1 Immunohistochemistry and p16 (CDKN2A) FISH in the Diagnosis of Malignant Mesothelioma in Effusion Cytology Specimens
…two tests could help diagnose malignant mesothelioma from fluid drained from the chest or abdomen (effusion cytology) instead of tissue biopsy. From Vancouver General Hospital files, the authors took 15 patients with epithelial mesothelioma (13 pleural…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Shattered lives: asbestos-related diseases
This two-page piece was an editorial, not a research study. It reported no new data and instead gave a general overview of asbestos and asbestos-related diseases, drawing on other sources. The editorial described chrysotile…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Mortality of a cohort of men in a silicosis register: further evidence of an association with lung cancer
…on a Hong Kong silicosis compensation register from July 1980 through 1986, comparing deaths with those expected in Hong Kong's general male population. They had excluded 68 workers thought to have had past or concomitant…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Whole-exome sequencing reveals frequent genetic alterations in BAP1, NF2, CDKN2A, and CUL1 in malignant pleural mesothelioma
This laboratory study read the protein-coding DNA (the 'exome') of tumors from 22 people diagnosed with malignant pleural mesothelioma at the New York University General Thoracic Surgery Service. Each tumor was compared with the same…