3 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Hazards of white asbestos
…a letter to The Lancet, not a research study, written by a health and safety co-ordinator at the UK Transport and General Workers Union. It responded to a May 9, 1998 commentary by Mark Cullen…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Hazards of white asbestos
…current or ex-smokers, against less than 0.5% of women. Compared with the general population, lung cancer mortality was estimated at about 17-fold in men and four-fold in women. People tended to be…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Long fibre asbestos in a chrysotile textile worker
…worker and a less pronounced but probably significant shift for the tremolite group. They noted general agreement that long fibres are associated with disease. On that basis they concluded that their findings offered an explanation for…