7 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Association between diet and lung cancer location
This study used data from a hospital case-control study to look at 328 patients with newly diagnosed primary lung cancer at Massachusetts General Hospital between December 1992 and August 1996. Almost all had tumors that…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Association of cigarette smoking and asbestos exposure with location and histology of lung cancer
The authors analyzed 456 patients with newly diagnosed, surgically removed stage I or II lung cancer at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, from December 1992 to August 1996. The patients were the case group of a larger…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Asbestos and lung cancer: what we know
…than fourfold increased risk. These studies had been criticized for comparing insulators with the U.S. general population and for not adjusting for smoking. The new study followed 2,377 insulators with chest X-ray, spirometric…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Reply: No indication that mineral wool causes mesothelioma
…wrong population. According to the author, both cases and controls came from the French general population, and the two sets of cases (1987–1996 and 1998–2006) showed no significant differences in socioeconomic status. The author…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Asbestos, Pleural Plaques, and Lung Cancer: Untangling the Relationships
…depends on precise exposure estimates. The author concluded that people with known moderate to heavy exposure should not be denied CT screening because they lack plaques. In general populations, the author wrote, bilateral plaques should prompt…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1996
Ozone enhances the uptake of mineral particles by tracheobronchial epithelial cells in organ culture
…mediated by hydrogen peroxide and possibly by hydroxyl radical. These findings support the general hypothesis that AOS are important mediators of epithelial particle uptake in many different settings. Enhanced uptake may be one of the mechanisms…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
No indication that mineral wool causes mesothelioma
…a lung cancer study was irrelevant. She said cases and controls came from the same general-population source and that the two case sets did not differ significantly by socioeconomic status. She added that controls were…