20 results for “General Electric”
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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 · 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 · 1999
Maintenance work and asbestos-related cancers in the refinery and petrochemical sector
…are at increased risk of lung cancer. The author noted that refinery and petrochemical workers overall have lower lung cancer rates than the general population, with one review reporting lung cancer mortality at 77% of the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Mortality of a cohort of men in a silicosis register: further evidence of an association with lung cancer
…on a Hong Kong silicosis compensation register from July 1980 through 1986, comparing deaths with those expected in Hong Kong's general male population. They had excluded 68 workers thought to have had past or concomitant…
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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 · 2017
Risk factors for malignant mesothelioma in people with no known exposure to asbestos
…histories. Over 9 years, 38 cases and 134 hospital controls with conditions unrelated to asbestos (65 with other cancers, 69 with general medical conditions) were interviewed about their histories. An industrial hygienist, unaware of diagnoses, coded…
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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 · 1999
A study of lung cancer mortality in asbestos workers: Doll, 1955
…mice by asbestos, were circulated in confidence to its scientists, but being unpublished were unknown to the general scientific community. There were also cancer mortality data recorded for populations of exposed asbestos workers, but these were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Maintenance work and asbestos-related cancers in the refinery and petrochemical sector
…ratios (SMRs, which compare observed deaths with those expected in the general population) were below 100. The author noted that refinery workers as a group have had lower lung cancer risk than the general population, so…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Radiographic asbestosis is not a prerequisite for asbestos-associated lung cancer in Ontario asbestos-cement workers
…hired before 1960 who had at least one chest X-ray available. Deaths were tracked to the end of 1985 and compared with the general population of Ontario. A single certified reader classified the X-rays…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Asbestos-related lung cancer mortality in Piedmont, Italy
…The association held without Casale Monferrato or without Turin. The authors suggested that asbestos effects on lung cancer known from occupational studies are also observable in the general population. Smoking and individual case data were unavailable.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Factors associated with cancer distress in the Asbestos Post-Exposure Survey (APEXS)
…asbestos will develop a disease was also associated with distress. The authors concluded that exposed subjects showed more distress than earlier studies had described. They noted their volunteer comparison group may not represent the general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
A clinical evaluation and tissue fiber burden analysis of a lifetime resident of Libby, Montana with adenocarcinoma of the lung
…lifelong resident of Libby and whose history of exposure was as a member of the general population there. To our knowledge this is the first time tissue from a member of the general population of Libby…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Lung cancer risk and welding: results from a case-control study in Germany
…In contrast, a history of welding in general for at least a half-year is 28% among cases and 23% among controls, yielding an OR of 1.25 (95% CL: 0.94-1.65) after adjustment…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Smoking intervention in subjects at risk of asbestos-related lung cancer
…and for a shorter period, than had the continuing smokers. Counseling by a general physician increased successful quitting threefold, compared to counseling by a physician in a specialized institution. These results suggest a potential for smoking…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Asbestos fiber type in malignant mesothelioma: an analytical scanning electron microscopic study of 94 cases
…in length. Nonasbestos mineral fibers (commonly found in the lungs of the general population) were observed in 71% of the cases and accounted for 25% of all fibers 5 microns or greater in length. The findings…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Absence of radiographic asbestosis and the risk of lung cancer among asbestos-cement workers: Extended follow-up of a cohort
…Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMRs) were calculated using the general population of Ontario as reference. Among asbestos-cement workers without radiographic asbestosis at 20 years latency the lung cancer SMR was 3.84 (2.24-6.14…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Mesothelioma and lung tumors attributable to asbestos among petroleum workers
…many studies clearly show a definitely increased risk of mesothelioma, but no proven excess of lung cancer after comparison to the general population. Through the presentation of new data and the re-appraisal of two recent…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
The doctors and the dockers
…The Registrar General's occupational mortality report for 1951, noted excess tumors of the lung and stomach for dockers. Elevated Standardized Mortality Ratios for lung cancer had consistently been calculated by the Registrar General for the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Asbestos exposure among Finnish lung cancer patients: occupational history and fiber concentration in lung tissue
…construction jobs, and valuable information about the exposure levels could be obtained by the mineral fiber analyses. In general, there was a good accord between the exposure categorization and the fiber burden measured in the lung.