10 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Asbestos fibres and the environment
This article in a British Medical Journal series on pollution reviewed what was known about asbestos fibres and the risk to the general public. The author first discussed why cancer risk differed between groups of asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1929
Clinical aspects of pulmonary asbestosis
…read at the 1929 Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association in Manchester, described asbestos workers seen in a general practice in Leeds. In 1926 the author and a colleague noticed that several patients with chest…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1964
Asbestos and malignancy
…Gloyne found bronchial carcinoma in 14% of a series of asbestosis cases. Doll calculated a lung cancer risk ten times that of the general population in workers exposed for 20 years or more. Braun and Truan…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
Unsuspected exposure to asbestos and bronchogenic carcinoma
…lung cancer. None had asbestosis or had worked in asbestos manufacturing. Each man was matched by age with a male control from general hospitals in the same catchment area. Of the 201 men with cancer, 58…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
Can society live with asbestos?
…agreeing the data could be interpreted in other ways. The general view at the meeting was that rigorously enforced current standards should mean virtually no health effects. Dr J C Wagner described studies of 32 man…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Editorial: Exposure to asbestos dust
…crocidolite (blue) asbestos than to other fibres. It reported that a 1972 International Agency for Research on Cancer committee found no indication of a risk to the general public. It stated that about 200 mesotheliomas were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1927
Histology of Pulmonary Asbestosis
…test. Zoologists judged them not animal, and the general opinion of botanical and chemical experts was that they were not plant forms. The author proposed that they were asbestos fibres slowly altered by chemical breakdown. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Smoking, coal, asbestos, and the lungs
…asbestos levels and smoking would cut lung cancer in workers, that cutting smoking would have more effect in asbestos-exposed workers than in the general population, and that banning tobacco advertising would be a sensible next…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1968
Asbestos bodies
…incidental asbestos inhalation was virtually certain. The author concluded that many bodies were probably true asbestos bodies and that occupational exposure was probably a more important source than general environmental contamination. The author called the occupational…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Asbestos--can it be used safely?
…to crocidolite. For Quebec chrysotile miners and millers, the mesothelioma risk was perhaps three to six times that of the general population, compared with 100-200 times in insulation workers exposed to mixed fibres. Some data…