22 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 2
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma in an urban hospital: clinical spectrum and trend in incidence over time
This retrospective review covered coded mesothelioma patients at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1973 through 1986. Of 75 cases, 64 were diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma; four peritoneal and seven benign fibrous cases were not analyzed. Of the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Asbestos in strange places: two case reports of mesothelioma among merchant seamen
The authors described two cases of malignant pleural mesothelioma in Greek merchant seamen. Both came from a mesothelioma registry in Greece and were seen at Sismanoglio General Hospital, Athens. The first was a 71-year-old…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Compensation of pleural mesothelioma in France: data from the French National Mesothelioma Surveillance Programme
…the Compensation Fund for Asbestos Victims (FIVA) were analyzed. Approximately 30% of subjects presenting with pleural mesothelioma, affiliated to the General National Health Insurance fund, neither sought recognition as an OD nor claimed for FIVA compensation…
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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 · 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 · 1990
Re: Mesothelioma in railroad machinists
…800,000 tremolite fibers per gram of dry lung. The general-population 95th percentile for amosite plus crocidolite was 10,000 fibers per gram of dry lung. The authors stated that the amosite plus crocidolite values…
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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 · 1986
Malignant mesothelioma caused by childhood exposure to long-fiber low aspect ratio tremolite
…his later work. The authors dissolved lung tissue and examined the recovered fibers by electron microscope. His chrysotile level was within the general population's range. His tremolite and actinolite level was slightly elevated, but far…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Malignant mesothelioma from neighborhood exposure to anthophyllite asbestos
…leu M1 antigen. Anthophyllite fibers were > 5 microm in length in lung tissue compared to 3 microm from a general population study. Anthophyllite asbestos has been associated with neighborhood environmental exposure and pleural plaques; we…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Mesothelioma in the London area
…to see whether the link with asbestos held in an urban setting. The team used hospital ward notes, the patients' general practitioners, and home interviews with surviving relatives, mostly carried out by social worker Hilda Thompson…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
RE: Asbestos in brakes: exposure and risk of disease
…cannot be defended. The letter discloses that the author has served as an expert witness in friction brake litigation, with the author's employer receiving funding for this work from Ford, General Motors and Daimler Chrysler.
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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 · 1992
Pleural malignant mesothelioma in Tuscany, Italy (1970-1988): I. Anatomo-pathologic aspects
Our investigation did not confirm the general experience that significant numbers of cases initially considered malignant mesothelioma or metastatic carcinoma are actually found to be metastatic carcinoma or malignant mesothelioma, respectively, upon deeper investigation using ancillary…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
A decade of malignant mesothelioma surveillance in Korea
…cases in Korea. In 2001, The Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency organized a nationwide cardiopulmonary pathology group and established a malignant mesothelioma surveillance system covering all general hospitals in Korea. Mesothelioma cases were reported to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Malignant mesothelioma incidence among talc miners and millers in New York State
…7) times the rate in the general population (P < 0.01). I conclude that: (1) mesothelioma has been diagnosed among members of the cohort at a rate in excess of that in the general population…
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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 · 1987
Malignant mesothelioma in non-asbestos textile workers in Florence
…sex, and year of hospital admission, with residence weighted for the general population of the Province. Both cases and referents (or their next of kin) completed an occupational questionnaire detailing possible occupational exposures. Out of the…
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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…