6 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Mesothelioma and lung cancer mortality: a historical cohort study among asbestosis workers in Hong Kong
…all 124 men newly diagnosed with asbestosis at Hong Kong's Pneumoconiosis Clinic between 1981 and 2008 until the end of 2008. Deaths were compared with male general population rates. Most worked in shipyards or construction…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
A genome-wide association study for malignant mesothelioma risk
This genome-wide association study looked for inherited DNA variants (SNPs) linked to malignant mesothelioma risk. The authors compared 428 mesothelioma patients from Western Australia and Queensland with 1269 general-population controls from Busselton, Western Australia…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Survival in patients with malignant pleural effusion undergoing talc pleurodesis
…to 2.39; 222 trial patients). The authors concluded there is an association between successful pleurodesis and survival. They called the results by no means definitive and had no data on patients' general fitness (performance status).
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Loss of C/EBP-β LIP drives cisplatin resistance in malignant pleural mesothelioma
…of liver, kidney, heart or muscle toxicity. The authors called their patient data preliminary. With few patients and no comparison group given other treatments, they could not tell general prognosis apart from prediction of cisplatin response.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Treatment patterns and survival analysis in 9014 patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma from Belgium, the Netherlands and England
…this difference is probably overrated because of selection bias. They noted that treatment definitions differed between countries and that data on other illnesses and general fitness were missing. The authors concluded that chemotherapy has become standard…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Need for randomized clinical trials testing targeted therapies in malignant pleural mesothelioma
This was a letter to the editor of Lung Cancer, written in response to an earlier article on BAP1 as a treatment target. In it, the authors reported a small meta-analysis, which pools the results of published trials, of targeted drug therapies for…