34 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Short fiber tremolite free chrysotile mesothelioma cohort revealed
In 1995, Dell and Teta published a cohort mortality study of asbestos molding compound workers at a Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) plastics manufacturing plant in Bound Brook, New Jersey. They reported that the factory workers were…
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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 · 1992
Survival of asbestos insulation workers with mesothelioma
This study followed 17,800 asbestos insulation union members in the United States and Canada from 1967 to 1987. Among 5026 deaths, 457 were from malignant mesothelioma (186 pleural, 271 peritoneal). Only cases whose tissue slides…
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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 · 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 · 2023
Exposure to insulating materials and risk of coronary artery diseases: a cross-sectional study
…CAD among insulators. In this cross-sectional study, we recruited 643 adults (≥18 years), full-time insulators from the Local 110 Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers Union in Edmonton, Alberta. We obtained demographic information…
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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 · 1983
Mesothelioma among machinists in railroad and other industries
…29 cancer deaths, there were nine mesotheliomas and one endothelioma of the pleura. Additional retrospective surveys of deaths among members of the railroad lodges of the international union, together with the cohort study, identified a total…
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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 · 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 · 2011
Asbestos in Poland: occupational health problems
…supervises. The authors reported that Poland imported about 2 million tonnes of asbestos after 1945, mostly chrysotile from the former Soviet Union. Crocidolite and small amounts of amosite were also used until the mid 1980s. From…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Global Asbestos Disaster
…of which work-related exposures are responsible for 233,000 deaths (222,322⁻242,802). In the European Union, United States of America and in other high income economies (World Health Organization regional classification) the direct costs…
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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 · 1997
Mesothelioma incidence and community asbestos exposure
…their "usual employment" was reported as being at the asbestos plant, as evidenced through union lists or occupational information from either the Cancer Registry or mortality records. Standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) were computed for residents of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Asbestos and cancer: An overview of current trends in Europe
…between 0. 004 kg in northern Europe and 2.4 kg in the former Soviet Union. Population surveys from northern Europe indicate that 15 to 30% of the male (and a few percent of the female…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Relative risk of mesothelioma among railroad machinists exposed to chrysotile
…1945, the author followed the 181 machinists hired from 1920 to 1929 through 1986. Deaths were identified from union death claim records. The author concluded from historical sources that the boiler lagging was almost exclusively, if…