166 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 9
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Ending asbestos poisoning: global advocacy from a survivor's view
…being clear of the disease since then. The author stated that the General Electric Company had put undisclosed asbestos in a power plant where the author worked in the 1970s, and reported proving that case in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Measurement of asbestos fibre concentrations in fluid of repeated bro-choalveolar lavages of exposed workers
…Uncertainties related in general to lung residues and in particular to mineralogical analysis of BALF (mainly due to the high coefficient of variation (CV) at low fibre concentrations and the results of the statistical analysis on…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Lung cancer and exposure to man-made vitreous fibers: results from a pooled case-control study in Germany
…The case series consisted of 3498 males who were histologically or cytologically verified primary lung cancer cases. 3541 male population controls were drawn at random from the general population and matched to cases by sex, age…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
The implosion of the Calgary General Hospital: ambient air quality issues
This study reported air monitoring around the October 4, 1998 implosion of seven Calgary General Hospital (Bow Valley Centre) buildings in Calgary, Alberta. Beforehand, all friable and some nonfriable asbestos had been removed. Samples came from…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, asbestos, and a "sane appreciation of the risks"
…specific hazards of mesothelioma and lung cancer. Ford, DaimlerChrysler and General Motors also endorsed a separate brake-work training program called S/P2, from the Coordinating Committee for Automotive Repair. That program told workers that inhaling…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Relation of occupational exposure to respiratory symptoms and asthma in a general population sample: self-reported versus interview-based exposure data
…was taken into account. The corresponding numbers for exposure to quartz were halved and lost their statistical significance when the misclassification was allowed for. In this general population sample, the self-reported occupational, airborne exposure data…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Polymorphisms in DNA repair genes as risk factors for asbestos-related malignant mesothelioma in a general population study
This population-based case-control study asked whether inherited variants in four DNA repair genes (XRCC1, XRCC3, XPD and OGG1) were linked to malignant mesothelioma of the pleura. It was set in Casale Monferrato, Italy, where an asbestos cement…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Inequities in reporting asbestos-related lung cancer: influence of smoking stigma and physician's specialty, workload and role perception
…claims for asbestos-related cancers, focusing on smokers' stigma and physicians' speciality and role perception. Cross-sectional telephone study of 486 randomly-selected general practitioners (GPs) and pulmonologists in south-eastern France. Standardised questionnaires explored their…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Homozygous deletion of p16INK4a and tobacco carcinogen exposure in nonsmall cell lung cancer
This study examined 177 consecutive non-small cell lung cancers removed at Massachusetts General Hospital from November 1992 to January 1996. Smoking history and occupational asbestos exposure came from an interviewer-administered questionnaire. The authors tested…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Asbestos content of omentum and mesentery in nonoccupationally exposed individuals
…electron microscopy for defining the asbestos burden in digested lung, omentum, and mesentery tissues from individuals considered as representing the general population in East Texas. The findings, when compared with previous data from occupationally exposed individuals…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Malignant pleural mesothelioma: a case report
This article reports a single patient's case, followed by a general review of asbestos-related diseases. An 86-year-old woman came to the Logan College of Chiropractic clinic with 3 months of right-sided…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
Immunohistochemistry in the distinction between malignant mesothelioma and pulmonary adenocarcinoma: a critical evaluation of new antibodies
This laboratory study, based on archived tissue at Southampton General Hospital, tested whether newer antibody stains could help pathologists tell malignant mesothelioma apart from lung adenocarcinoma. The authors stained tissue from 41 malignant mesotheliomas (1990 to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Promoter methylation of DAP-kinase: association with advanced stage in non-small cell lung cancer
…NSCLC). One hundred and eighty-five patients diagnosed with NSCLC undergoing surgical resection from June, 1992 through December, 1996 at Massachusetts General Hospital participated in this study. Methylation-Specific PCR (MSP), performed using fresh-frozen tissue…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Mesothelioma risk and environmental exposure to asbestos: past and future trends in Japan
Although asbestos has been widely distributed in the environment, health risks due to general environmental exposure to asbestos have not been estimated. Future mesothelioma risk from environmental exposure to asbestos in Japan was estimated by comparing…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Cancer incidence among Australian nuclear industry workers
This retrospective cohort study compared cancer rates among workers at the Lucas Heights Science and Technology Centre with rates in the general New South Wales (NSW) population. Of 7,076 workers employed 1957 to 1998, the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Loss of heterozygosity of chromosome 3p21 is associated with mutant TP53 and better patient survival in non-small-cell lung cancer
This study examined tumors from a random subset of 260 patients with surgically removable non-small-cell lung cancer treated at Massachusetts General Hospital from November 1992 through December 1996. The authors looked for loss of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Occupational lung cancer risk for men in Germany: results from a pooled case-control study
This study pooled two German case-control studies (1988 to 1996): 3,498 men with lung cancer and 3,541 men from the general population. Lifelong job and smoking histories were collected; experts rated workplace exposures…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Mortality and cancer morbidity in a cohort of Canadian petroleum workers
…1964 and 1994 and worked at least one year. Their records were linked to national death and cancer registry data and compared with the general Canadian population. The authors also estimated exposure to hydrocarbon solvents/fuels…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Updated mortality among diverse operating segments of a petroleum company
…in the earlier study. Analyses used standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) to compare worker cause specific mortality with the Canadian general population. Duration of employment and latency analyses were performed for causes previously found to be increased…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Pathological recognition of diffuse malignant mesothelioma of the pleura: the significance of the historical perspective as regards this signal tumor
…but we do know that there were so few cases before 1930 that the very existence of the disease was not accepted in general before 1930 and not accepted by all pathologists even up until 1960…