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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 2001
Union Carbide Corporation's Responses to Plaintiff George Pena's Requests for Disclosure, Boehl v. Owens Corning (2001)
…witnesses (Bakelite resin and labeling witnesses, outside experts) Exhibit B: Defendants' list of potential deposition and trial testimony, with line and page designations Exhibit C: CCR Defendants' general list of medical, state-of-the-art, economic…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 3, 2000
Union Carbide's Responses to Weldon R. Moake's First Interrogatories, Requests for Production and Requests for Admission, Moake v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas (2000)
…District, Brazoria County, Texas, a premises case concerning Union Carbide's Seadrift, Texas plant. It lodges general and specific objections, admits that asbestos-containing products were used at Seadrift and that gaskets, pipe covering, boilers, fireproofing…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 2000
Union Carbide Chemical & Plastics Co.'s Responses to Plaintiffs' Request for Disclosure in Moake v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas (2000)
…et al., filed in the 239th District Court, Brazoria County, Texas. The responses state the defendant's general defenses (causation, smoking, state of the art, no duty-to-warn breach), say it lacks information on persons…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Occupational exposures and risk of systemic lupus erythematosus
…to 47.0) for SLE-related hospitalization compared with all other hospitalized patients. The only study of workplace solvents and SLE found no association for solvents as a general category. Data on specific solvents were lacking…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
A case-control study of the relationship between the risk of colon cancer in men and exposures to occupational agents
…who were diagnosed with colon cancer between 1979 and 1985. They compared them with 2047 control men: 1514 with other cancers and 533 from the general population. Chemists and industrial hygienists turned each man's job…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
Asbestos and its lethal legacy
…Doll's 1955 study of asbestos-textile workers, which estimated a lung cancer risk ten times that of the general population among those exposed for 20 years or more, and which the sponsoring company tried to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Environmental and occupational health hazards associated with the presence of asbestos in brake linings and pads (1900 to present): a "state-of-the-art" review
…to 2002 and summarized exposure and health studies of brake mechanics and friction product manufacturing workers. The work was primarily funded by Ford, DaimlerChrysler and General Motors, companies involved in brake-dust litigation. In NIOSH surveys…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Asbestos: a clear and present danger--a UK perspective
…heard the appeals in May 2002 and reversed that decision. The author wrote that a UK mesothelioma victim might receive £40k to 50k in general damages for pain and suffering, plus care costs and financial losses…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
RE: Mesothelioma and lung tumors attributable to asbestos among petroleum workers. Am. J. Ind. Med. 2000. 37:275-282
…rate ratios: excluding "contract workers", the practice of "tolling", and using general-population rather than unexposed company workers as controls for standardized mortality ratios. They noted a 1960 report, co-authored by Texaco's medical director…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Cancer of the gastrointestinal tract and exposure to asbestos in drinking water among lighthouse keepers (Norway)
…The standardized incidence ratio (SIR) was calculated as the number of new cancer cases divided by the expected number based on five-year age and sex specific incidence rates in the general rural population of Norway…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Cancer incidence among marine engineers, a population-based study (Iceland)
…8) were observed when a 40-year lag time was applied. The engineers' smoking habits were similar to those in a sample of the general population. The predictive value for lung cancer was 1.03. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Malignant mesothelioma after radiation treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma
…lymphoma. The risk was almost 30-fold increased in Hodgkin lymphoma patients treated with irradiation compared with the general population. Although histology and survival of the mesothelioma cases were comparable with cases from the general population…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Rapporteur's Report Session 6: risk assessment of asbestos and other fibrous mineral particulates
…mesothelioma reported that 2 of 2907 deaths in taconite worker cohorts (0.07%) were from mesothelioma, compared with 0.17% of deaths among US males in the general population. The rapporteurs compared two studies of Libby…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Estimating the number of asbestos-related lung cancer deaths in Great Britain from 1980 to 2000
…to 2000 (excluding 1981) were calculated for occupational groups. Smoking indicators were developed from three General Household Surveys carried out during the 1980s and 1990s. Poisson regression models were used to estimate the number of asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Asbestosis and lobar site of lung cancer
…68.8% among workers with asbestosis were in the lower lobes, compared with 28.6% in the city's general population. A later cohort of 4060 asbestos workers (1985–96) used the same upper-plus-lower…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Update of mortality and cancer incidence in the Australian petroleum industry cohort
…and drivers had more kidney cancer than expected (12 cases v 5.84 expected). Lung cancer incidence among men was lower than in the general population (SIR 0.69, 95% CI 0.57 to 0.83)…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Asbestos exposure causes mesothelioma, but not this asbestos exposure: an amicus brief to the Michigan Supreme Court
…in mechanics must be considered. They stated that Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler admitted in litigation paying over $30,000,000 since 2000 to experts who produced papers the manufacturers rely on. The authors concluded that…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Malignant mesothelioma from neighborhood exposure to anthophyllite asbestos
…leu M1 antigen. Anthophyllite fibers were > 5 microm in length in lung tissue compared to 3 microm from a general population study. Anthophyllite asbestos has been associated with neighborhood environmental exposure and pleural plaques; we…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Factors affecting the mesothelioma detection rate within national and international epidemiological studies: insights from Scottish linked cancer registry-mortality data
…up 4% to 7% of these deaths. The General Register Office for Scotland reported that these codes were mainly used for mesothelioma when asbestos exposure was mentioned. The authors concluded that counting these poisoning codes may…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Growth inhibition and induction of apoptosis in mesothelioma cells by selenium and dependence on selenoprotein SEP15 genotype
…Reducing SEP15 in a sensitive line made it less responsive. The variant's distribution did not differ statistically significantly between blood from 36 mesothelioma patients and 48 people from the general population. The authors concluded that…