4 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Impact of occupational carcinogens on lung cancer risk in a general population
…highly exposed industrial cohorts. Our aim was to quantify lung cancer burden attributable to occupational carcinogens in a general population. We applied a new job-exposure matrix (JEM) to translate lifetime work histories, collected by personal…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Impact of low-dose computed tomography screening on lung cancer mortality among asbestos-exposed workers
…deaths from all cancers or from malignant neoplasm of the pleura. Deaths from pleural cancer were higher than in the general population in both groups. The authors concluded that taking part in screening was associated with…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Commentary: Asbestos exposure and mesothelioma risk
…used the statistical relationship between the average lung burden of asbestos particles and mesothelioma death rates in the general population to predict rates in younger people who began work after asbestos was no longer in use…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Past and current asbestos exposure and future mesothelioma risks in Britain: The Inhaled Particles Study (TIPS)
…lung burdens in British birth cohorts from 1940 to 1992 were estimated for asbestos-exposed workers and the general population. Regression analysis of British mesothelioma death rates and average lung burdens in birth cohorts born before…