5 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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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 · 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 · 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 · 1988
Malignant mesothelioma
…the late 1950s, after he arrived in Australia. The Electrical Trades Union prepared a workers' compensation claim and argued that the statute of limitations should be waived on humanitarian grounds. The claim succeeded, with a settlement…