1,631 results for “General Electric”, page 33 of 82
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Cancer Attributable to Asbestos Exposure in Shipbreaking Workers: A Matched-Cohort Study
…followed 4,427 former shipbreaking workers in Taiwan, members of the 1985 Kaohsiung Shipbreaking Workers Union, and 22,135 general-population controls matched by age, sex and living area. All were linked to the Taiwan Cancer…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Cancer incidence in a cohort of asbestos-exposed workers undergoing health surveillance
To compare a local cohort of 2488 men occupationally exposed to asbestos and enrolled in a public health surveillance program with the 1995-2009 cancer incidence of the general population of Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG) region…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
SORORIN and PLK1 as potential therapeutic targets in malignant pleural mesothelioma
…It did not study asbestos exposure. The authors measured gene activity in nine tumor samples from Toronto General Hospital and in four mesothelioma cell lines. They reported that both genes were overexpressed in a majority of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Potential asbestos exposure among patients with primary lung cancer in Japan
…for workers, the study subjects may contain a higher proportion of workers than the general population. Pleural plaques were identified in 12.8% of subjects (15.8% in males and 4.9% in females), consisting exclusively…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Occupational and work-related respiratory disease attributed to cleaning products
This study analysed work-related respiratory disease reported to the UK THOR surveillance network by chest physicians (1989–2017), occupational physicians (1999–2017) and general practitioners (2006–2017). It concerns cleaning products; asbestos cases were excluded…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Malignant mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis: a atypical presentation of a rare scrotal tumour
…old man with malignant mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis, the lining around the testis. He saw his general practitioner about a painless, enlarged lymph node in his right groin, with no scrotal swelling or testicular pain…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
A Bayesian Model and Stochastic Exposure (Dose) Estimation for Relative Exposure Risk Comparison Involving Asbestos-Containing Dropped Ceiling Panel Installation and Maintenance Tasks
…study measured airborne fibers while workers simulated tasks with asbestos-containing ceiling panels. The authors then used statistical models to estimate exposures for ceiling specialists, general tradesmen, maintenance workers, do-it-yourself persons such as homeowners…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Sharing different perspectives to understand asbestos-induced carcinogenesis: A comment to Jiang et al. (2016)
…Cancer Sci (2016) that have inspired a more general comment on how the research on asbestos should take advantage of the different existing multidisciplinary perspectives so to flow into a final comprehensive model of asbestos‐induced…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Selected Cancers in Petroleum Refinery Workers
…meta-analysis pooled 36 cohort-based studies of petroleum refinery workers to estimate the risk of 11 cancers compared with background rates, looking at refinery work in general rather than specific substances. Across 18 mesothelioma studies…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Peritoneal mesothelioma and asbestos exposure: a population-based case-control study in Lombardy, Italy
…to its rarity, PeM has rarely been investigated in community-based studies. We examined the association between asbestos exposure and PeM risk in a general population in Lombardy, Italy. From the regional mesothelioma registry, we selected…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Increased Standardised Incidence Ratio of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma in Taiwanese Asbestos Workers: A 29-Year Retrospective Cohort Study
…including MPM (ICD-9 code: 163), were obtained from the Taiwan Cancer Registry. SIRs were calculated based on comparison with the incidence rate of the general population of Taiwan and adjusted for age, calendar period, sex…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Mortality Update of a Cohort of Canadian Petroleum Workers
…petroleum company through December 31, 2006. Standardized mortality ratios were generated for all-cause and specific cause mortality. All cause and all cancer mortality were favorable compared with the general Canadian population. Cancers of previous interest…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Risk of de novo cancers after transplantation: results from a cohort of 7217 kidney transplant recipients, Italy 1997-2009
…to dialysis or to study closure. The number of observed DNCs was compared to that expected in the general population of Italy through standardised incidence ratios (SIR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI). To identify risk factors…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Mortality among shipbreaking workers in Taiwan--a retrospective cohort study from 1985 to 2008
…from 1985 to 2008. The mortality ratios-standardized for age and calendar years-(SMRs) for various causes of deaths were calculated with reference to the general population of Taiwan. Among men workers, a statistically significant increased…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Lung cancer and mesothelioma risk assessment for a population environmentally exposed to asbestos
…city in Quebec, Canada, provided an opportunity to undertake a prospective cancer risk assessment in the general population exposed to these concentrations. Using an updated Berman and Crump dose-response model for asbestos exposure, we selected…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Use of the posterior pericardium to cover the bronchial stump after right extrapleural pneumonectomy
…a study of asbestos exposure. The author, a thoracic surgeon at Toronto General Hospital, described a way to cover the stapled end (stump) of the right main bronchus after right extrapleural pneumonectomy. This is an operation…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Cancer morbidity and quartz exposure in Swedish iron foundries
This retrospective cohort study compared cancer incidence from 1958 to 2004 among 3,045 men employed over one year at ten Swedish iron foundries with general Swedish population rates. The authors estimated workers' cumulative respirable quartz…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Utility of BAP1 Immunohistochemistry and p16 (CDKN2A) FISH in the Diagnosis of Malignant Mesothelioma in Effusion Cytology Specimens
…two tests could help diagnose malignant mesothelioma from fluid drained from the chest or abdomen (effusion cytology) instead of tissue biopsy. From Vancouver General Hospital files, the authors took 15 patients with epithelial mesothelioma (13 pleural…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Shattered lives: asbestos-related diseases
This two-page piece was an editorial, not a research study. It reported no new data and instead gave a general overview of asbestos and asbestos-related diseases, drawing on other sources. The editorial described chrysotile…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Whole-exome sequencing reveals frequent genetic alterations in BAP1, NF2, CDKN2A, and CUL1 in malignant pleural mesothelioma
This laboratory study read the protein-coding DNA (the 'exome') of tumors from 22 people diagnosed with malignant pleural mesothelioma at the New York University General Thoracic Surgery Service. Each tumor was compared with the same…