18 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1971
Asbestos: some nonradiological aspects
…types. It listed exposure sources including mining, insulation work, ship-breaking, demolition, electricians near laggers, and air pollution from brake linings. It stated that any type can cause asbestosis, which was becoming rare. Citing Doll (1965)…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1975
Proceedings: Asbestos carcinogenesis
This summary of a talk at the 16th Annual General Meeting of the British Association for Cancer Research reviewed cancers in people exposed to asbestos dust and whether they were linked to specific fibre types. Lung…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
The significance of asbestos exposure in the diagnosis of mesothelioma: a 28-year experience from a major urban hospital
This retrospective study reviewed all 36 patients coded with diffuse malignant mesothelioma at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, from 1945 through 1972. The authors classed 17 cases as asbestos related, 14 through shipyard trades. They classed 19…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1978
Asbestos exposure and related neoplasia. The 28 year experience of a major urban hospital
This was a retrospective review of hospital records for all 49 patients diagnosed with asbestosis at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston from 1945 through 1972. Asbestosis was confirmed by tissue examination in 36 patients and diagnosed…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Significance of asbestos in lung tissue
…is an abstract of a talk the author, of the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit in Penarth, gave at the 88th general meeting of the Association of Clinical Pathologists. It reports no patients, measurements or numerical study results…
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Court case · North Carolina Court of Appeals · July 17, 1979
Bullard v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1979)
…lung cancer was caused by workplace asbestos exposure, because no expert said asbestos caused it and the evidence showed only an increased general risk or a possible contributing cause. Causation; Expert Testimony Worksites: Johns-Manville plant…
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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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
Environmental exposure to asbestos: A factor in the rising rate of cancer in the industrialized world?
…exposure could not easily be discounted. The author still saw no reason to change the Lyon conference conclusion of no evidence of a risk to the general public at present. The author urged physicians to take…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Dose-response relationships for asbestos-related disease: implications for hygiene standards. Part II. Mortality
…first exposure and duration were shown, with gastrointestinal cancer and asbestosis set aside. The author concluded that occupational exposure must be rigorously monitored, but that risk to the general population is likely to be extremely low.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Current opinions on the asbestos cancer problem
This article was a synopsis of a recent review of epidemiological studies and a general summary by the same author, drawing on opinions expressed at the 1969 Pneumoconiosis Conference in Johannesburg. The author described international studies…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · September 19, 1973 · in the opinion
Utter et al. v. Asten-Hill Mfg. Co. (1973)
…exposed, in this industry, as he might very well be, to the common cold and that it is peculiar to the industry and not common to the general public." 203 Pa. Superior Ct. at 462, 201…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Pleural plaques and neoplasia in Finland
…The authors suggested that slight asbestos exposure causes plaques while heavy exposure leads to plaques and lung fibrosis. They considered the results in accord with the general view of the association between plaques and asbestos exposure.
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Court case · Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court · May 25, 1972 · in the opinion
Bambrick v. Asten Hill Mfg. Co. et al. (1972)
…he meant asbestosis when he said asbestos exposure, as well as exceed our judicial prerogative. The General Assembly has limited recovery to death caused by asbestosis, not asbestos exposure. There is insufficient evidence upon which to…