442 results for “General Electric”, page 10 of 23
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
Asbestos and its lethal legacy
…Doll's 1955 study of asbestos-textile workers, which estimated a lung cancer risk ten times that of the general population among those exposed for 20 years or more, and which the sponsoring company tried to…
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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 · 2001
RE: Mesothelioma and lung tumors attributable to asbestos among petroleum workers. Am. J. Ind. Med. 2000. 37:275-282
…rate ratios: excluding "contract workers", the practice of "tolling", and using general-population rather than unexposed company workers as controls for standardized mortality ratios. They noted a 1960 report, co-authored by Texaco's medical director…
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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 · 1999
A study of lung cancer mortality in asbestos workers: Doll, 1955
…mice by asbestos, were circulated in confidence to its scientists, but being unpublished were unknown to the general scientific community. There were also cancer mortality data recorded for populations of exposed asbestos workers, but these were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Maintenance work and asbestos-related cancers in the refinery and petrochemical sector
…ratios (SMRs, which compare observed deaths with those expected in the general population) were below 100. The author noted that refinery workers as a group have had lower lung cancer risk than the general population, so…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
The silent epidemic: asbestosis and related diseases
…20% to 50% of asbestosis patients. It stated that asbestos workers who smoke have a 10 times greater chance of developing lung cancer than smokers in the general population, and a 75 to 100 times greater…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Radiographic asbestosis is not a prerequisite for asbestos-associated lung cancer in Ontario asbestos-cement workers
…hired before 1960 who had at least one chest X-ray available. Deaths were tracked to the end of 1985 and compared with the general population of Ontario. A single certified reader classified the X-rays…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Estimating the number of asbestos-related lung cancer deaths in Great Britain from 1980 to 2000
…to 2000 (excluding 1981) were calculated for occupational groups. Smoking indicators were developed from three General Household Surveys carried out during the 1980s and 1990s. Poisson regression models were used to estimate the number of asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Asbestos-related cancer risk in patients with asbestosis or pleural plaques
…Among asbestos-exposed individuals, those having radiographic evidence of pleural plaques are at increased risk for lung cancer and pleural mesothelioma, compared to the general population. However, there is no evidence that pleural plaque confers an…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Malignant mesothelioma after exposure to asbestos in dental practice
…found 0.7 x 10^6 crocidolite fibres per gram of dry lung. The authors described this as lower than expected with longstanding occupational exposure but higher than in the general population. No chrysotile fibres were found…
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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 · 1974
Pathological and environmental aspects of asbestos-associated diseases
…It summarised other researchers' work. Doll (1955) reported that asbestos workers had a lung cancer death rate ten times that of the general population. Selikoff and colleagues (1968) reported that asbestos insulation workers who smoked regularly…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1955
Carcinoma of the lung in asbestosis: report of two additional cases
…their lungs (8.2 per cent). Over the same period and age range, their hospital's general rate was 1.5 per cent. No fiber type was named. The authors concluded that this and other series…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Estimation of an optimal chemotherapy utilization rate for malignant pleural mesothelioma: an evidence-based benchmark for cancer care
…followed. The authors combined guideline recommendations with published figures on how many patients had operable disease, good general fitness (performance status) and severe other illnesses. The model found chemotherapy was recommended in 65% of patients, mostly…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
An unjustified prognosis of the number of asbestos-related lung cancer cases caused by an increase in airborne asbestos concentrations as a result of removing of asbestos-cement products
…a 2014 article by Hajok and colleagues. That article estimated lung cancer cases in the general Polish population from asbestos exposure during removal and disposal of asbestos-cement products. The letter's authors argued that published…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Asbestos exposure causes mesothelioma, but not this asbestos exposure: an amicus brief to the Michigan Supreme Court
…in mechanics must be considered. They stated that Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler admitted in litigation paying over $30,000,000 since 2000 to experts who produced papers the manufacturers rely on. The authors concluded that…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Combined effect of asbestos exposure and smoking on mortality from lung cancer in factory workers
…from hospital records, family doctors and relatives. Lung-cancer deaths were compared with the numbers expected from general-population rates adjusted for smoking. Workers with low-to-moderate exposure showed no significant excess, whether they smoked…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Analysis of asbestos concentration in 20 cases of pseudomesotheliomatous lung cancer
…at least one sample above 20 per gram of wet tissue, while six were within the 0 to 20 per gram the authors expected in the general population. Uncoated asbestos was found in all 20 cases…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Mesothelioma in an individual following exposure to crocidolite-containing gaskets as a teenager
…per gram of deparaffinized (wax-removed) wet tissue. Two of the authors' laboratories use 20 or fewer per gram of wet tissue as the general-population level. Electron microscopy at 15,000 times magnification detected only…