15 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Inequities in reporting asbestos-related lung cancer: influence of smoking stigma and physician's specialty, workload and role perception
…claims for asbestos-related cancers, focusing on smokers' stigma and physicians' speciality and role perception. Cross-sectional telephone study of 486 randomly-selected general practitioners (GPs) and pulmonologists in south-eastern France. Standardised questionnaires explored their…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Peritoneal mesothelioma and asbestos exposure: a population-based case-control study in Lombardy, Italy
…to its rarity, PeM has rarely been investigated in community-based studies. We examined the association between asbestos exposure and PeM risk in a general population in Lombardy, Italy. From the regional mesothelioma registry, we selected…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Lung cancer and mesothelioma in the pleura and peritoneum among Swedish insulation workers
…some years after the exposure had ended. In a cohort study the cancer morbidity and cause of death was investigated in 248 insulation workers and compared with the corresponding morbidity and mortality in the general population…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Occupational exposure to carcinogens and risk of lung cancer: results from The Netherlands cohort study
…dust, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and welding fumes) in a prospective cohort study among the general population, and to estimate the proportion of lung cancer cases attributable to these occupational exposures. A prospective cohort study on diet…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Comparison of exposure assessment methods for occupational carcinogens in a multi-centre lung cancer case-control study
…re-applied to all study subjects. Third, an independent general population JEM (GPJEM) was created by occupational exposure experts not involved in the original study, and applied to study subjects. Results from these methods were compared…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Asbestosis and lobar site of lung cancer
…68.8% among workers with asbestosis were in the lower lobes, compared with 28.6% in the city's general population. A later cohort of 4060 asbestos workers (1985–96) used the same upper-plus-lower…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Update of the Texaco mortality study 1947-93: Part II
…colleagues in their update of the Texaco mortality study. The author argued that refinery workers as a group have had lower lung cancer rates than the general population, so maintenance workers exposed to asbestos should be…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Pleural mesothelioma and occupational and non-occupational asbestos exposure: a case-control study with quantitative risk assessment
…Monferrato (north west Italy) is an area with an exceptionally high incidence of mesothelioma caused by asbestos contamination at work and in the general environment from the asbestos-cement Eternit plant that was operational until 1986…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Digestive cancers and occupational asbestos exposure: incidence study in a cohort of asbestos plant workers
…occupationally exposed to asbestos. The incidence of digestive cancers was calculated from 1 January 1978 to 31 December 2009 and compared with levels among the local general population using Standardised Incidence Ratios (SIRs). Asbestos exposure was…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Pleural mesothelioma and lung cancer risks in relation to occupational history and asbestos lung burden
We have conducted a population-based study of pleural mesothelioma patients with occupational histories and measured asbestos lung burdens in occupationally exposed workers and in the general population. The relationship between lung burden and risk, particularly…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
A cohort study of mortality among Ontario pipe trades workers
…Canadian Mortality Registry at Statistics Canada. Standardised mortality ratios were computed using Ontario general population mortality rates as the reference. There were significant increases in lung cancer mortality rates (SMR 1.27; 95% CI 1.13…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
A comparison of exposure assessment approaches: lung cancer and occupational asbestos exposure in a population-based case-control study
…assessment of occupational exposure to asbestos was compared using self-reports and a general population job-exposure matrix (DOM-JEM). Cases and frequency matched controls provided life-time job histories and self-reported exposures to potential…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Mortality in a cohort of vermiculite miners exposed to fibrous amphibole in Libby, Montana
…a 14% increase in mortality for mine workers exposed occupationally to 100 f/ml.y or about 3.2% for a general population exposed for 50 years to an ambient concentration of 0.1 f/ml…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Lung cancer incidence in Canadian petroleum workers
…cancer incidence, although exposures to the single agents studied did not emerge as strong predictors of lung cancer incidence. Maintenance work may be a surrogate for general exposures to several agents (eg, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, metals…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Extended follow-up of lung cancer and non-malignant respiratory disease mortality among California diatomaceous earth workers
…significant. Associations were attenuated when adjusted for smoking and asbestos exposure. Mortality from NMRD was significantly increased over the entire follow-up compared to the general population (SMR=1.37, 95% CI 1.17 to 1.60)…