442 results for “General Electric”, page 12 of 23
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Lung fibre burden in lung cancer cases employed in the rock and slag wool industry
…dry lung. Asbestos fibres were found in 16 cases in minor amounts, described by the authors as similar to general-population levels. Lung fibre levels did not follow estimated exposure to MMVF or asbestos, and age…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Increased risk of lung cancer in pesticide-exposed male agricultural workers
…5 yr. The SMR (standardized mortality ratio) of 2.0 for lung cancer morbidity (mortality) in these pesticide-exposed subjects was significantly higher than that for the general male population of the German Democratic Republic. A…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Survival in patients with malignant pleural effusion undergoing talc pleurodesis
…to 2.39; 222 trial patients). The authors concluded there is an association between successful pleurodesis and survival. They called the results by no means definitive and had no data on patients' general fitness (performance status).
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · December 12, 2022
Boutte v. Huntington Ingalls Inc. (2022)
…adopted allegations identified the workplaces, that missing job and date details could be learned in discovery, and that McDermott could simply deny the general paragraphs that did not apply to it. The pleading was not unintelligible.
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois · April 9, 2014
Hasenberg v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp. (2014)
…not make clear which defendants were sued in which counts, the court dismissed it without prejudice and ordered an amended complaint by May 9, 2014. It also noted general personal jurisdiction standards for a later motion.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Loss of C/EBP-β LIP drives cisplatin resistance in malignant pleural mesothelioma
…of liver, kidney, heart or muscle toxicity. The authors called their patient data preliminary. With few patients and no comparison group given other treatments, they could not tell general prognosis apart from prediction of cisplatin response.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Invited Commentary
…at one center by one surgeon. The author concluded that age alone should not decide fitness for surgery. In the author's view, measures of general well-being and activity should stay central to surgical decisions.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Malignant Diffuse Mesothelioma in Women: A Study of 354 Cases
… chrysotile was never the only fiber type. The authors concluded that peritoneal mesotheliomas in women, in general, are not likely to be caused by asbestos exposure. They noted that 95% of cases came from litigation and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Absence of multiplicative interactions between occupational lung carcinogens and tobacco smoking: a systematic review involving asbestos, crystalline silica and diesel engine exhaust emissions
…The silica studies disagreed on the additive scale. The authors concluded that, in general, there is no multiplicative interaction between these exposures and smoking, and that the evidence was insufficient to conclude on the additive scale…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Asbestos exposure: challenges for Australian clinicians
…median survival of 9–12 months. The authors wrote that most people with disabling asbestos-related disease are compensated. They argued that differing general damages awards across jurisdictions made a strong case for a national approach.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Asbestos, Pleural Plaques, and Lung Cancer: Untangling the Relationships
…depends on precise exposure estimates. The author concluded that people with known moderate to heavy exposure should not be denied CT screening because they lack plaques. In general populations, the author wrote, bilateral plaques should prompt…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Checkpoint inhibitors in mesothelioma: hope for the future?
…the trials were non-comparative, could be affected by selection and survivorship bias, and enrolled patients of good performance status (general fitness). They concluded that well-designed phase 3 trials are needed. The article did not…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Spirometry: a predictor of lung cancer among asbestos workers
…concluded that spirometry can identify patients at risk of lung cancer and should be offered at least every three years. They noted that participation was voluntary and that the results cannot be generalized to general practice.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Case-control study on lung cancer and residential radon in western Germany
…7 (95 percent CI 1.4 to 2.0). Adjusting for it did not change the radon results. The authors concluded that their results suggest residential radon contributes to lung cancer risk in the general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Lung cancer screening with low-dose CT
…subjects are required to demonstrate a possible mortality reduction. Only then general recommendations to screen individuals at risk of lung cancer with low-dose CT should be made. It can be hoped that international cooperation will…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
A case-control study of lung cancer nested in a cohort of European asphalt workers
…risk. A sizable proportion of the excess mortality from lung cancer relative to the general population observed in the earlier cohort phase is likely attributable to high tobacco consumption and possibly to coal tar exposure, whereas…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Assessment of the epidemiological data relating lung cancer to air pollution
…cancer likely greater than zero but unlikely to exceed 2% of all lung cancers, or 5 per 100,000 cases in urban males. The author concluded there was no reason to repeat such general-population studies.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Treatment patterns and survival analysis in 9014 patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma from Belgium, the Netherlands and England
…this difference is probably overrated because of selection bias. They noted that treatment definitions differed between countries and that data on other illnesses and general fitness were missing. The authors concluded that chemotherapy has become standard…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Familial mesothelioma: a report of two families
…asbestos bodies per gram of wet lung tissue. This was well within the lower limits seen in the general urban population with no occupational history of asbestos exposure. The authors concluded that genetic factors may be…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Mortality from lung cancer in asbestos workers 1955
…was a specific industrial hazard of certain asbestos workers and that the average risk among men employed for 20 or more years has been of the order of 10 times that experienced by the general population…