246 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 13
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Case report: peritoneal mesothelioma from asbestos in hairdryers
…a blow dryer 1 to 2 feet from her face. She reported using only asbestos-containing hairdryer models (Conair, General Electric, Gillette) from 1976 to 1982. The article lists chrysotile as a keyword but does not…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1971
Asbestos: some nonradiological aspects
…types. It listed exposure sources including mining, insulation work, ship-breaking, demolition, electricians near laggers, and air pollution from brake linings. It stated that any type can cause asbestosis, which was becoming rare. Citing Doll (1965)…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Lung cancer and exposure to man-made vitreous fibers: results from a pooled case-control study in Germany
…The case series consisted of 3498 males who were histologically or cytologically verified primary lung cancer cases. 3541 male population controls were drawn at random from the general population and matched to cases by sex, age…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
Mongolia: Failure of Total Banning of Asbestos
…After the banning of asbestos, thermal power plants told the government that they could not produce electricity without insulation of AMCs and substitution materials were economically not feasible. Due to pressure from the energy sector and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
US surgeon general ignites furor with findings on smoking in the workplace
…news article, not a research study. A freelance writer described the US Surgeon General's December 1985 Smoking and Health report on cancer and chronic lung disease in the workplace, and the reaction to it. According…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Performance of two general job-exposure matrices in a study of lung cancer morbidity in the Zutphen cohort
…of lung cancer morbidity incidence. The two general job-exposure matrices generally disagreed with regard to exposure classification because of differences in exposure assessment and level of detail of the job axis. When compared with self…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
The Brazilian System for Monitoring Workers and General Population Exposed to Asbestos: Development, Challenges, and Opportunities for Workers' Health Surveillance
…especially in lower-income countries. This paper aims to present the recently developed Brazilian system for monitoring workers and general population exposed to asbestos (Datamianto), and to discuss the main challenges and opportunities for workers' health…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Lung Cancer and Pleural Mesothelioma Risk Assessment for the General Population Exposed to Asbestos in Different Regions of Tehran, Iran
This study did not count actual cases of disease. It used air-monitoring results to estimate cancer risk for the general population of Tehran, Iran. The authors took yearly average outdoor asbestos fiber concentrations for 2011…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Impact of occupational carcinogens on lung cancer risk in a general population
…highly exposed industrial cohorts. Our aim was to quantify lung cancer burden attributable to occupational carcinogens in a general population. We applied a new job-exposure matrix (JEM) to translate lifetime work histories, collected by personal…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Asbestos Exposures, Mesothelioma Incidence and Mortality, and Awareness by General Practitioners in the Molise Region, Central Italy
…mesothelioma incidence and mortality, and awareness on asbestos-related diseases (ARDs) by general practitioners (GPs) in Molise Region. The contaminated sites in three towns were identified by census; mesothelioma incidence (2000 to 2012) and mortality (2003…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Detection of mineral fibre carcinogenicity with the intraperitoneal test--recent results and their validity
The general experimental design of intraperitoneal (i.p.) carcinogenicity studies with inorganic fibres in rats is described. In a current study, in addition to glass microfibres, size-separated fine respirable fractions of commercial insulation wools (MMVF…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Identifying patients with suspected lung cancer in primary care: derivation and validation of an algorithm
…derive and validate an algorithm incorporating information on symptoms, to estimate the absolute risk of having lung cancer Cohort study of 375 UK QResearch® general practices for development, and 189 for validation. Selected patients were aged…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Inequities in reporting asbestos-related lung cancer: influence of smoking stigma and physician's specialty, workload and role perception
…claims for asbestos-related cancers, focusing on smokers' stigma and physicians' speciality and role perception. Cross-sectional telephone study of 486 randomly-selected general practitioners (GPs) and pulmonologists in south-eastern France. Standardised questionnaires explored their…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Impact of induction therapy on postoperative outcome after extrapleural pneumonectomy for malignant pleural mesothelioma: does induction-accelerated hemithoracic radiation increase the surgical risk?
This retrospective study from Toronto General Hospital, Canada, reviewed patients who had extrapleural pneumonectomy for malignant pleural mesothelioma between January 2001 and December 2014. In this operation the lung, outer chest lining, diaphragm and heart sac…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Glypican-1 immunohistochemistry does not separate mesothelioma from pulmonary adenocarcinoma
This laboratory study from Vancouver General Hospital in Canada tested whether a tissue stain for a protein called glypican-1 could help pathologists tell pleural mesothelioma apart from pulmonary (lung) adenocarcinoma. These two cancers can look…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Diffuse malignant peritoneal mesothelioma
This case report from Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan, described one patient with diffuse malignant peritoneal mesothelioma, a cancer of the abdominal lining. The patient was a 54-year-old male construction worker admitted with two…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1975
Proceedings: Asbestos carcinogenesis
This summary of a talk at the 16th Annual General Meeting of the British Association for Cancer Research reviewed cancers in people exposed to asbestos dust and whether they were linked to specific fibre types. Lung…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Malignant mesothelioma of tunica vaginalis testis: Report of a very rare case with review of the literature
This article was a case report from the Department of Urology of the General Hospital of Bolzano, Italy, followed by a discussion of earlier published reports. It described a 40-year-old patient admitted for routine…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Usefulness of methylthioadenosine phosphorylase and BRCA-associated protein 1 immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma in effusion cytology specimens
This retrospective study, using cases from Vancouver General Hospital in Canada and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, asked whether a laboratory stain for a protein called MTAP helps tell malignant mesothelioma apart from harmless (reactive…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
A feasibility study evaluating Surgery for Mesothelioma After Radiation Therapy: the "SMART" approach for resectable malignant pleural mesothelioma
This phase I/II feasibility study came from Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Toronto General Hospital, Canada. It tested a treatment, SMART, for surgically removable malignant pleural mesothelioma. It did not study asbestos exposure. From November…