12 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Survival of asbestos insulation workers with mesothelioma
This study followed 17,800 asbestos insulation union members in the United States and Canada from 1967 to 1987. Among 5026 deaths, 457 were from malignant mesothelioma (186 pleural, 271 peritoneal). Only cases whose tissue slides…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Pulmonary fibrosis in asbestos insulation workers with lung cancer: a radiological and histopathological evaluation
This study examined members of an insulation workers' union who died of lung cancer between January 1967 and September 1983. It was part of a continuing cohort mortality study of 17,800 union members. Of 450…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1975
Effect of asbestos on lipid peroxidation in the red cells
In vitro exposure of red cells to vie International Union against Cancer (UICC) standard reference asbestos samples resulted in an increase of thiobarbituric acid substances. Chrysotiles developed the largest amounts of lipid peroxides, followed by anthophyllite…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Symptomatic benign pleural effusions among asbestos insulation workers: residual radiographic abnormalities
This cross-sectional survey examined 2815 asbestos insulation workers from a union cohort in the United States and Canada, each with 30 or more years since first exposure, in 1981 to 1983. The article does not…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Lung function in insulation workers
…materials (rock and glass wool), the members of the Copenhagen Union of Insulation Workers were invited to participate in a study based on a health examination that included lung function tests. Three hundred and forty men…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestotic radiological abnormalities among United States merchant marine seamen
…United States merchant marine seamen, taken in 1985-7. Members on union lists of about 10,000 active and retired seamen were invited for an x-ray, and roughly half came. One experienced B reader read…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Hazards of lung biopsy in asbestos workers
…asbestos insulation workers had lung biopsies and what happened afterwards. It drew on a union cohort of 17 800 insulation workers in the United States and Canada. Of 2907 living members who had reached 30 years…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Determinants of respiratory symptoms in insulation workers exposed to asbestos and synthetic mineral fibres
…questionnaire survey studied Quebec insulation workers, whose trade involved asbestos and, more recently, synthetic mineral fibres. Of 644 union insulators, 558 replied; 21 receiving asbestosis compensation were excluded, leaving 537. Exposure was estimated only as total…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Report of the Advisory Committee on Asbestos Cancers to the Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer
In 1964 the Geographical Pathology Committee of the International Union against Cancer (UICC) set up a working group on asbestos and cancer and later issued a Report and Recommendations (1965). A further meeting was held at…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Kinetics of deposition and clearance of inhaled mineral dusts during chronic exposure
New inhalation studies have been carried out with rats exposed to UICC (Union International Contre le Cancer) amosite asbestos, with the main aim of further elucidating the factors the influence the accumulation of dust in the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Sister chromatid exchanges in rat pleural mesothelial cells treated with crocidolite, attapulgite, or benzo 3-4 pyrene
…mutagen. The attapulgite sample came from Senegal and had fibres shorter than 2 µm. The crocidolite was a Union Internationale contre le Cancer sample. Cells between the 12th and 15th passage were treated with 10, 15…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Abnormal pulmonary function associated with diaphragmatic pleural plaques due to exposure to asbestos
…most of them members of boilermakers', pipefitters', metal, or chemical unions. Their mean age was just over 60, with over 30 years of asbestos exposure. Results for 21 non-smokers and 43 current smokers were compared…