825 results for “General Electric”, page 18 of 42
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Heterozygous germline BLM mutations increase susceptibility to asbestos and mesothelioma
…Therefore, 7 of 155 apparently unrelated mesothelioma patients carried BLM+/- mutations, significantly higher (P = 6.7E-10) than the expected frequency in a general, unrelated population from the gnomAD database, and 2 of 7 carried…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Cancer and noncancer mortality among aluminum smelting workers in Badin, North Carolina
…rate ratios (SRRs) were calculated to compare mortality rates between workers ever employed vs never employed in the pot room. All-cause mortality among Badin workers was lower than in the general population (SMR: 0.81…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Increased Risk of Gastric Cancer in Asbestos-Exposed Workers: A Retrospective Cohort Study Based on Taiwan Cancer Registry 1980-2015
…the period 1980-2015. Standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) for cancer were computed for the whole cohort using reference rates of the general population, and also reference labor population. Compared with the general population, SIR of the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2024
Alloyed Airways: Chromium, Beryllium, and Titanium in the Lungs of an Aerospace Veteran
…The article is not about asbestos, which it names only as one of many general causes of pneumoconiosis. Breathing tests showed a 9% rise in FEV1 after a bronchodilator and a corrected DLCO of 74% of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Asbestos awareness among the residents of St. Kitts and Nevis: a cross-sectional study
…knowledge, and attitudes toward asbestos management. We found that 70% of residents of St. Kitts and Nevis considered asbestos exposure to be a general public concern and believed the government should prevent it. Of all participants…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Re Ferrante et al (2020). Mortality and mesothelioma incidence among chrysotile asbestos miners in Balangero, Italy: A cohort study
…incomplete, explanation. Lung cancer SMRs versus the general population were almost identical: 1.14 (95% CI 0.81 to 1.55) and 1.16 (0.87 to 1.52). By cumulative exposure (fiber/mL-years), Pira…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
A Single Liver Metastasis from Pleural Biphasic Mesothelioma
…he had weight loss, cough, chest pain, fever and general malaise. A chest CT scan showed a 6.7 by 6.5 cm mass in the right upper lobe, of probable pleural origin, and numerous pleural…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Occupational characterization of workers exposed to asbestos: an integrative review
…the Virtual Health Library, 23 studies published from 2015 to 2020 were selected and evaluated. The occupations that showed greater illness due to exposure to asbestos were general asbestos workers (40%), miners (22%), and textile workers…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Molecular Fingerprints of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: Not Just a Matter of Genetic Alterations
…in malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM): the chemical controls that switch genes on and off without changing the DNA sequence. The review discussed asbestos exposure in general and did not separate fiber types. Citing earlier sequencing studies…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Meta-Analysis of the Association between Asbestos Exposure and Esophageal Cancer
…ranges below are also 95% intervals). The authors described this as exposed participants being 1.28 times more likely to die from esophageal cancer than the general population. The pooled SMR was significantly raised for chrysotile…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Analysis of mismatch repair (MMR) proteins expression in a series of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) patients
…or smoking. Median survival for the whole group was 15 months (95% confidence interval 13.5 to 18.8 months). Survival was longer in patients with better performance status (general fitness), the epithelioid tumor type, and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Identification of Potential Hub Genes and Therapeutic Drugs in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma by Integrated Bioinformatics Analysis
…KIF20A, AURKA, CEP55 and ASPM. They then checked survival in a general mesothelioma dataset in the GEPIA database, which has no separate pleural mesothelioma dataset. For all 10 genes, high expression was reported as a risk…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
The association between occupational asbestos exposure with the risk of incidence and mortality from prostate cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis
…methodological quality appeared to yield elevated SIRs or SMRs. This systematic review and meta-analysis provides evidence that men with occupational asbestos exposure have a PCa incidence and mortality similar to that of the general population…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Near Missed Case of Occupational Pleural Malignant Mesothelioma, a Case Report and Latest Therapeutic Options
…lung. She received radiotherapy and chemotherapy with cisplatin and pemetrexed. After the third course of chemotherapy, fluid appeared around the other lung and her general condition worsened. A detailed work history, taken only in February 2022…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Retrospective Exposure Assessment Methods Used in Occupational Human Health Risk Assessment: A Systematic Review
…for the asbestos part, because the general PubMed search returned too many articles. They included 44 original, peer-reviewed English-language articles published from 2010 onward, covering assessment in general and asbestos specifically. The review reports…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
Occupational asbestos exposure and urinary bladder cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis
…observed no difference in the subgroup analysis for countries and no direct publication bias evidence. There is evidence that workers with occupational asbestos exposure have a bladder cancer incidence and mortality similar to the general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Public health risks from asbestos cement roofing
…cement plants, and that another cited study did not control for confounders. The authors concluded it is biologically plausible that asbestos roofing can cause asbestos-related disease in the general public. Citing the precautionary principle, they…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Programmed cell death 1 ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression is associated with poor prognosis of malignant pleural mesothelioma patients with good performance status
…was not statistically significant once other factors were taken into account. Among the 129 patients with an ECOG performance-status score below 2 (better general condition), PD-L1 positivity remained linked to worse survival after adjustment…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Talc exposure and risk of stomach cancer: Systematic review and meta-analysis of occupational cohort studies
…Across all forms of talc, the pooled relative risk of stomach cancer, compared with the general population, was 1.21 (95% CI 1.03 to 1.42). For talc not containing asbestiform fibers the figure was…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Second primary malignancies in patients with hidradenocarcinoma: a US national database study
…rare sweat-gland-related skin cancer. The authors identified 351 cases diagnosed from 1973 to 2015. They compared later cancers with the number expected in a matched general population. Overall, 72 patients developed a second cancer…