3 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1968
Asbestos bodies in peritoneum
…from Harold Levine of Cook County Hospital in Chicago, responded to a Massachusetts General Hospital case record in which Dr. Castleman had answered "No" when asked whether asbestos bodies are present in the peritoneal cavity in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Relation between exposure to asbestos and mesothelioma
…53 from lung cancer. For comparison, an American Cancer Society general-population study recorded only 3 deaths from pleural mesothelioma among 31,652 deaths. Among the 10 workers who died of mesothelioma, none developed it less…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Nonoccupational exposure to chrysotile asbestos and the risk of lung cancer
…and crocidolite fibers per gram of dry lung. The laboratory's maximal general-population background for amosite plus crocidolite is 10,000 fibers per gram of dry lung. The second and third had asbestosis at autopsy…