3 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1951
Asbestosis associated with bronchogenic carcinoma
…cancer and asbestosis, and reviewed earlier published reports of lung cancer occurring together with asbestosis. The patient was a 40-year-old white man admitted to Queens General Hospital with cough, fever and weakness. He had…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1955
Carcinoma of the lung in asbestosis: report of two additional cases
…their lungs (8.2 per cent). Over the same period and age range, their hospital's general rate was 1.5 per cent. No fiber type was named. The authors concluded that this and other series…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1955
Mortality from lung cancer in asbestos workers
…was a specific industrial hazard of certain asbestos workers and that the average risk among men employed for 20 or more years has been of the order of 10 times that experienced by the general population…