35 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Chrysotile biopersistence: the misuse of biased studies
…mesothelioma, and non-malignant lung and pleural disorders, manufacturers and some chrysotile miners' unions contend that chrysotile either does not cause disease or that there is insufficient evidence to reach a conclusion. At the same time…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Cancer incidence among members of the Norwegian trade union of insulation workers
Insulation work has been described as an occupation with high exposure to asbestos. A cohort of members of the Norwegian Trade Union of Insulation Workers (n = 1116), hired between 1930 and 1975, was established. During…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Report and recommendations of the working group on asbestos and cancer; convened under the auspices of the Geographical Pathology Section of the International Union against Cancer
This is not a research study. It is the report of a Working Group convened by the Geographical Pathology Committee of the International Union against Cancer, which met in New York in October 1964 with forty…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Yield of Low-Dose Computerized Tomography Screening for Lung Cancer in High-Risk Workers: The Case of 7189 US Nuclear Weapons Workers
To determine the lung cancer screening yield and stages in a union-sponsored low-dose computerized tomography scan program for nuclear weapons workers with diverse ages, smoking histories, and occupations. We implemented a low-dose computerized…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1968
Asbestos exposure, smoking, and neoplasia
The authors followed 370 men from two asbestos insulation workers' union locals in New York and Newark, New Jersey, who were alive on January 1, 1963, through April 30, 1967. All had first been exposed to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Pulmonary fibrosis in asbestos insulation workers with lung cancer: a radiological and histopathological evaluation
This study examined members of an insulation workers' union who died of lung cancer between January 1967 and September 1983. It was part of a continuing cohort mortality study of 17,800 union members. Of 450…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Mortality among sheet metal workers participating in a respiratory screening program
This study followed 17,345 sheet metal workers who had been union members for 20 or more years and were screened by chest x-ray at 62 sites nationwide between 1986 and 2004. The authors traced…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1964
Asbestos exposure and neoplasia
This study followed 632 men who were members of two asbestos insulation workers' union locals, in New York and in Newark, New Jersey, as of 1942. It traced their deaths from January 1, 1943, through December…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
A cohort study of mortality among Ontario pipe trades workers
…and sprinkler fitters. Increased risk was observed among workers joining the Union as late as the 1970s. A random effects meta-analysis of this study and the two PMR studies found significant increases in oesophageal (RR…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Mortality among shipbreaking workers in Taiwan--a retrospective cohort study from 1985 to 2008
…are lacking. This study examined mortality among shipbreaking workers over a 24-year follow-up period. A total of 4,962 shipbreaking workers were recruited from the database of the Kaohsiung Shipbreaking Workers Union. The data…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Single-center study to determine the safety and efficacy of CT-707 in Chinese patients with advanced anaplastic lymphoma kinase-rearranged non-small-cell lung cancer
This single-center, open-label phase I trial was run at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, China. It tested CT-707, an experimental oral ALK-targeting drug, in adults with advanced ALK-rearranged cancers. Thirteen patients…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Australia's Ongoing Legacy of Asbestos: Significant Challenges Remain Even after the Complete Banning of Asbestos Almost Fifteen Years Ago
…The sustained efforts of trade unions and non-governmental organisations were essential in forcing the Australian government to finally implement the 2003 asbestos ban. Trade unions and non-government organisations continue to play a key role…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
CT scan screening for lung cancer: risk factors for nodules and malignancy in a high-risk urban cohort
…between 2001 and 2010, and some were followed for up to 10 years. Some were referred by a utility workers' union. The authors considered 171 participants (14.5%) to have confirmed asbestos exposure, based on both…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Lung cancer and mesothelioma during prospective surveillance of 1249 asbestos insulation workers, 1963-1974
…for 1249 union asbestos insulation workers in the New York metropolitan area, followed from January 1, 1963 to December 31, 1974. They were 370 older men who were already union members by 1942 and 879 younger…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Re: "Changing attitudes and opinions regarding asbestos and cancer 1934-1965"
…not an original research study. Its author, the administrator of an insulators' union health program, was responding to Dr. Philip Enterline's 1991 review of how scientists' opinions on asbestos and cancer changed between 1934 and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Histologic type of lung cancer and asbestos exposure
…asbestos exposure. The authors reviewed 855 lung cancer cases in total (747 men and 108 women), from three New Jersey hospitals and from a study of insulation workers union members, which supplied 67 cases. Of these…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Asbestos disease in sheet metal workers: proportional mortality update
…workers. They examined death certificates for 331 white male members of Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association whose deaths were reported to the union benefit fund between January 1983 and October 1986. Deaths…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Asbestos and cancer: an early warning to the British TUC
The author, a lawyer at the University of Birmingham, examined Trades Union Congress (TUC) archives held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. The archives related to the drafting of Britain's Asbestos Industry Regulations…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Occupational burden of asbestos-related cancer in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico
…Health Organization. Estimates of how many workers in each economic sector were exposed to asbestos were not available for the countries studied, so the authors used European Union figures from 1990 to 1993. For mesothelioma, the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Asbestos: historical perspective
…study by Irving Selikoff, E. Cuyler Hammond and Jacob Churg of 632 men from two asbestos insulator union locals. Hammond suggested confining analysis to men with at least 20 years' work experience. That study recorded 255…