7 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Electron microscope characteristics of inhaled chrysotile asbestos fibre
This study described how chrysotile asbestos looks under the electron microscope in human lung tissue. The author examined specimens from about 300 lungs: general population groups, people with pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma and their controls, and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Combined effect of asbestos and smoking on mortality from lung cancer and mesothelioma in factory workers
…Deaths were tracked to 1980. There was no unexposed comparison group, so lung cancer deaths were compared with numbers expected from death rates in the general population of the region, adjusted for smoking. After this adjustment…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Asbestos associated tumours in car mechanics
…cancer register (1961-79, ages 20 to 69), and compared observed cases with the numbers expected from the general population. One mesothelioma was found in the cancer register and none in the death register. That man…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Survival of asbestos insulation workers with mesothelioma
Malignant mesothelioma is a lethal disease. It is rare in the general population; however, workers exposed to asbestos suffer significant burdens of the neoplasm. The survival time of 457 consecutive fatal cases of pleural and peritoneal…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Asbestos content of lung tissue in asbestos associated diseases: a study of 110 cases
…which are the hallmark of asbestos exposure, were present in the lungs of virtually everyone in the general population and present at increased levels in individuals with asbestos associated diseases. The highest numbers of AB occurred…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Predictions of mortality from mesothelial tumours in asbestos factory workers
…mortality and somewhat higher for women. The highest number of deaths from mesothelial tumours will occur during the 1980s, thereafter the numbers will decline because of the decreasing size of the cohort resulting from general mortality.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
Mesothelioma register 1967-68
…but, in general, mesothelioma occured at an earlier age than carcinoma of bronchus and lung' or all malignant tumours' in the Registrar General's statistical mortality tables. Concomitant asbestosis and the finding of asbestos bodies or…