6 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Pulmonary fibrosis in asbestos insulation workers with lung cancer: a radiological and histopathological evaluation
This study examined members of an insulation workers' union who died of lung cancer between January 1967 and September 1983. It was part of a continuing cohort mortality study of 17,800 union members. Of 450…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Symptomatic benign pleural effusions among asbestos insulation workers: residual radiographic abnormalities
This cross-sectional survey examined 2815 asbestos insulation workers from a union cohort in the United States and Canada, each with 30 or more years since first exposure, in 1981 to 1983. The article does not…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Hazards of lung biopsy in asbestos workers
…asbestos insulation workers had lung biopsies and what happened afterwards. It drew on a union cohort of 17 800 insulation workers in the United States and Canada. Of 2907 living members who had reached 30 years…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Determinants of respiratory symptoms in insulation workers exposed to asbestos and synthetic mineral fibres
…questionnaire survey studied Quebec insulation workers, whose trade involved asbestos and, more recently, synthetic mineral fibres. Of 644 union insulators, 558 replied; 21 receiving asbestosis compensation were excluded, leaving 537. Exposure was estimated only as total…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Kinetics of deposition and clearance of inhaled mineral dusts during chronic exposure
New inhalation studies have been carried out with rats exposed to UICC (Union International Contre le Cancer) amosite asbestos, with the main aim of further elucidating the factors the influence the accumulation of dust in the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Sister chromatid exchanges in rat pleural mesothelial cells treated with crocidolite, attapulgite, or benzo 3-4 pyrene
…mutagen. The attapulgite sample came from Senegal and had fibres shorter than 2 µm. The crocidolite was a Union Internationale contre le Cancer sample. Cells between the 12th and 15th passage were treated with 10, 15…