442 results for “General Electric”, page 14 of 23
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Exposure-Response Analyses of Asbestos and Lung Cancer Subtypes in a Pooled Analysis of Case-Control Studies
…asbestos exposure and assessed the joint effect of asbestos exposure and smoking by sex and lung cancer subtype in general population studies. We pooled 14 case-control studies conducted in 1985-2010 in Europe and Canada…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Pleural mesothelioma and occupational and non-occupational asbestos exposure: a case-control study with quantitative risk assessment
…Monferrato (north west Italy) is an area with an exceptionally high incidence of mesothelioma caused by asbestos contamination at work and in the general environment from the asbestos-cement Eternit plant that was operational until 1986…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Asbestos in High-Risk Communities: Public Health Implications
…lung cancer, and asbestosis-are well known as occupational diseases. As industrial asbestos use is eliminated, ARDs within the general community from para-occupational, environmental, and natural exposures are more prominent. ARD clusters have been studied…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Digestive cancers and occupational asbestos exposure: incidence study in a cohort of asbestos plant workers
…occupationally exposed to asbestos. The incidence of digestive cancers was calculated from 1 January 1978 to 31 December 2009 and compared with levels among the local general population using Standardised Incidence Ratios (SIRs). Asbestos exposure was…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
The costs and effects of screening for cancer among asbestos-exposed workers
…We have reviewed the data on the general effectiveness of screening for the two most common cancers found in these workers (lung cancer and colo-rectal cancer) and have compared the relative benefits expected from screening…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Hierarchical regression for multiple comparisons in a case-control study of occupational risks for lung cancer
…suffer from false positive findings. Semi-Bayes adjustment methods have sometimes been used to address this issue. Hierarchical regression is a more general approach, including Semi-Bayes adjustment as a special case, that aims at improving…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Mineral particles, mineral fibers, and lung cancer
…smoking history, and general occupational class. The lung cancer patients had an average of 525 +/- 369 X 10(6) exogenous mineral particles and 17.4 +/- 19.6 X 10(6) exogenous mineral fibers/g dry lung…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Survey of British pathologists' performance of mesothelioma post-mortems
…a questionnaire was sent to all UK Consultant Histopathologists, and 12% were recruited. In general post-mortems, the Coroner approved 60% of requests for organ retention, and Pathologists failed to make such a request in 5…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Asbestos fibre burden in the lungs of patients with mesothelioma who lived near asbestos-cement factories
…residence to both plants. To provide information on the intensity of environmental asbestos exposure, in the general population living around these factories, through the evaluation of the lung fibre burden in mesothelioma patients. We analysed by…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Detection of serum p53 protein in lung cancer patients
…with potential asbestos exposure), 23 unexposed matched hospital control subjects, 58 unmatched general population control subjects, and 4 people with nonmalignant lung disease using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and Western immunoblotting. Average levels of serum…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Risk factors associated with asbestos-related diseases: a community-based case-control study
…is a first level carcinogen. However, few epidemiological studies analyse the risk and protective factors associated with asbestos-related diseases and follow up these conditions in the general population. Pleural mesothelioma, caused by inhalation of asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Utility of a CEA, CD15, calretinin, and CK5/6 panel for distinguishing between mesotheliomas and pulmonary adenocarcinomas in clinical practice
…mesothelioma from pulmonary adenocarcinoma originated from academic centers or specialized immunohistochemistry laboratories, but little is known about how such stains perform in general practice laboratories. The Canadian Immunohistochemistry Quality Control program circulates tissue array slides to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
The second diagnosis: the role of the pathologist in identifying pneumoconioses in lungs excised for tumor
This short review in the journal's Current Topics section, written by a lung pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, argued that pathologists examining lungs removed for tumor should also make a 'second diagnosis' of disease in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Identification of specific gene copy number changes in asbestos-related lung cancer
…vivo experiments have shown that asbestos can cause chromosomal damage and aberrations. Lung tumors, in general, have several recurrently amplified and deleted chromosomal regions. To investigate whether a distinct chromosomal aberration profile could be detected in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Pleural mesothelioma and lung cancer risks in relation to occupational history and asbestos lung burden
We have conducted a population-based study of pleural mesothelioma patients with occupational histories and measured asbestos lung burdens in occupationally exposed workers and in the general population. The relationship between lung burden and risk, particularly…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Occupational lung cancer
Exposure to certain industrial agents has been thought to have carcinogenic potential, both for employees who work closely with such agents and for the general population that comes in contact with them. Although case reports, laboratory…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · September 19, 1973 · in the opinion
Utter et al. v. Asten-Hill Mfg. Co. (1973)
…exposed, in this industry, as he might very well be, to the common cold and that it is peculiar to the industry and not common to the general public." 203 Pa. Superior Ct. at 462, 201…
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Court case · Kentucky Court of Appeals · April 1, 2005 · in the opinion
Parker v. Henry A. Petter Supply Co. (2005)
…Mine and Mill Supply's liability and that Parker could have pursued IRECO as a defendant. The general rule regarding liability of a corporate successor in Kentucky is that a purchasing corporation does not assume liability…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · June 22, 2016 · in the opinion
Boudreaux v. Bollinger Shipyard (2016)
…It is well-established that the trial court is afforded wide discretion in determining [\771] whether expert testimony should be admitted and who should or should not be qualified as an expert. See General Elec. Co…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · June 13, 2022 · in the opinion
Becnel v. Lamorak Insurance Company (2022)
…Becnel's general asbestos exposure at Hooker creates an issue of fact as to AIC's liability as the alleged Eagle insurer. Whether Exposure to the Eagle Product was a Substantial Factor in Bringing About Mr…