6 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
The priority for recognizing asbestos as a multicentre carcinogen, and problems in categorizing asbestos tumours
…cited an earlier register study of 246 malignant mesothelioma cases in which three had additional primary cancers. That was not significantly different from the 1.2% rate in a separate review of 3,771 general autopsies.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Volumetry: an alternative to assess therapy response for malignant pleural mesothelioma?
…a low interobserver agreement for tumour response classification (general κ 0.33). Only 14 patients were classified equally. A high inter-rater reliability (0.99) and interobserver agreement (general κ 0.9) were found for absolute…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Respiratory illness in asbestos contaminated sites: the role of environmental exposure
…Plaques had a significant effect on forced vital capacity in males. Pleural abnormalities were less prevalent in the general population exposed after 1976. The editorial authors argued that exposure categories should consider distance from fibre sources…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Valproate-doxorubicin: promising therapy for progressing mesothelioma. A phase II study
…patients (16%; 95% CI 3 to 25%) had a partial response. All seven were in good general condition (performance status 80 to 100), though statistical tests found no factor that significantly predicted response. The best disease…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Pleural effusion during bromocriptine exposure in two patients with pre-existing asbestos pleural plaques: a relationship?
…also received steroids, had normal lung function 12 months after he first presented. The second man's general symptoms eased quickly, but his chest X-ray and lung function did not improve substantially. The authors concluded…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Effects of tobacco smoking on findings in chest computed tomography among asbestos-exposed workers
…The authors concluded that CT can detect changes due to smoking at an early stage. They noted that there were only 18 never-smokers and that the results cannot be applied directly to the general population.