289 results for “General Electric”, page 10 of 15
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Medical study · Medical research · 1971
Asbestos dust concentrations in ship repairing: a practical approach to improving asbestos hygiene in naval dockyards
…the top of a ladder from the stripping area. Removing pipe lagging gave mean general levels of 171 fibres/cm3 in boiler rooms and 88 fibres/cm3 in engine rooms. Applying lagging gave much lower levels…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
Pathological and environmental aspects of asbestos-associated diseases
…It summarised other researchers' work. Doll (1955) reported that asbestos workers had a lung cancer death rate ten times that of the general population. Selikoff and colleagues (1968) reported that asbestos insulation workers who smoked regularly…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1978
Risk factors in asbestos exposure
…the author stated, lung cancer risk was raised about four-fold above general-population non-smokers in a non-smoker, and ten- to twenty-fold above people with the same smoking habit in a heavy smoker…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
What to do about the asbestos currently in ships and industry?
…the author cited studies indicating that essentially all adult lungs contain asbestos fibers, while mesothelioma is rare in the general population. The author stated that approximately 1.5 million Royal Navy seamen and officers served for…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Cancer mortality and asbestos deposits
…did not have known asbestos deposits. The study of cancer mortality rates in these matched counties provides no evidence that naturally-occurring asbestos is a great hazard to the general population of counties with asbestos depostis.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Combined effect of asbestos exposure and smoking on mortality from lung cancer in factory workers
…from hospital records, family doctors and relatives. Lung-cancer deaths were compared with the numbers expected from general-population rates adjusted for smoking. Workers with low-to-moderate exposure showed no significant excess, whether they smoked…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1978
Awkward medicolegal problems in asbestos-induced disease. Problems in law
…to mesothelioma, asbestos bodies in the lungs of ordinary people, mesothelioma without a known cause in the general population, and the combined effect of smoking in lung cancer all made causation hard to decide. He noted…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
Chrysotile asbestos: health effects
…at the workplace for 50 years) resulted in unacceptable health hazards. The workers' general health was comparable to that of Quebec Province's population. The author stated that the Rockville quarries contain much less chrysotile than…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
Lung disease related to exposure to asbestos
…suggestive, and four to five as conclusive. Lung cancer was described as about ten times more frequent in asbestos workers than in the general population. Mesothelioma was described as following exposure as short as 3 months…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
The combined effects of smoking and occupational or urban factors in relation to lung cancer
…risk in certain occupational groups, studies on general populations show that the effect of smoking is large compared with that of "urban" factors and there is no indication of any interaction between smoking and air pollution.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1975
Review article. Asbestosis: a reassessment of the overall problem
…example, it reported a mesothelioma risk in insulation workers of 10 per 307, compared with 3 per 31,652 in the general population. The author stated that ingestion had not been shown to cause gastrointestinal cancer…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
Asbestos bodies and fibers in lung tissues
…lung from 14 people with pleural mesothelioma, 11 with severe occupational asbestosis with lung fibrosis and squamous carcinoma, and 52 unselected patients from the general population. By light microscopy, all unselected patients had a few asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Report of the Advisory Committee on Asbestos Cancers to the Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer
…137 participants from 20 countries; the committee then reported on evidence since 1964. It answered general questions and recommended research. It stated that all major commercial asbestos types can cause lung carcinoma, with clear risk differences…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
Unsuspected exposure to asbestos and bronchogenic carcinoma
…lung cancer. None had asbestosis or had worked in asbestos manufacturing. Each man was matched by age with a male control from general hospitals in the same catchment area. Of the 201 men with cancer, 58…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Asbestos as an industrial health hazard
…and millers, were placed slightly lower. It said the general population did not appear to be at risk, but past cancers had occurred in people living downwind of factories and in people in workers' homes. It…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Fever, hepatic lesions and ascites
…diagnosis of peritoneal mesothelioma. The Missouri State Geologist told a discussant there was no asbestos in the quarry where the patient had worked. When asked in general terms, the patient denied asbestos exposure. Only specific questions…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
The subject of continuous vigilance
…has brought with it concomitant and widespread contamination of the environment. The need to control asbestos is required in the forms of legislation and surveillance, to prevent the spread of asbestos disease into the general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Editorial: Exposure to asbestos dust
…crocidolite (blue) asbestos than to other fibres. It reported that a 1972 International Agency for Research on Cancer committee found no indication of a risk to the general public. It stated that about 200 mesotheliomas were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Asbestos disease in United States shipyards
…based on only 13 shipyard asbestosis deaths. Overall, shipyard insulators' mortality did not differ substantially from that of insulators in general. Second, in 1975 and 1976 the authors X-rayed 1000 volunteer workers at a shipyard…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Asbestos-related disease
…to the author, the study prompted the United States surgeon general to alert more than half a million physicians about probable asbestos-related disease in people employed in shipbuilding during World War II. The letter stated…