3 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
The significance of asbestos exposure in the diagnosis of mesothelioma: a 28-year experience from a major urban hospital
This retrospective study reviewed all 36 patients coded with diffuse malignant mesothelioma at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, from 1945 through 1972. The authors classed 17 cases as asbestos related, 14 through shipyard trades. They classed 19…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Mortality among employees of an Ontario asbestos-cement factory
…cancers, and 17 deaths from mesothelioma; the factory control subjects had mortality rates similar to the general population. The cell-type distribution of the lung cancers was similar to that occurring in middle-aged smokers. Cumulative…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1969
Asbestos and health in 1969
…found the contention that crocidolite itself causes mesothelioma difficult to accept. The author also argued that ferruginous bodies in the general public had not been proved to be asbestos, and named talc as another fiber source…