973 results for “General Electric”, page 17 of 49
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Mesothelioma not associated with asbestos exposure
…peritoneal MM in five countries. They also cited a study of 2567 five-year survivors of Hodgkin lymphoma in which irradiated patients had almost 30-fold the general population's MM risk. For carbon nanotubes they…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1971
Asbestos dust concentrations in ship repairing: a practical approach to improving asbestos hygiene in naval dockyards
…the top of a ladder from the stripping area. Removing pipe lagging gave mean general levels of 171 fibres/cm3 in boiler rooms and 88 fibres/cm3 in engine rooms. Applying lagging gave much lower levels…
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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 · 2014
Evaluation of take-home exposure and risk associated with the handling of clothing contaminated with chrysotile asbestos
…weekly). These averages assumed zero asbestos outside the 30 to 45 minutes of each activity. PCM, a general fiber count, read 2 to 50 times higher than TEM, which the authors attributed largely to clothing fibers…
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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 · 2012
Acute phase response, inflammation and metabolic syndrome biomarkers of Libby asbestos exposure
…exposure route. One day after a single LA dose, two 'acute phase' proteins, part of a general reaction to inflammation, rose in all three strains tested. Lipocalin-2 also rose in those three strains, but osteopontin…
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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 · 2012
Adjuvant radiotherapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma: challenges and pitfalls
…almost exclusively epithelial tumors. Their median age was 57.8 years, compared with a median age at diagnosis of 68 years in the general malignant pleural mesothelioma population in Italy. In that series, 55.4% had…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestos-related benign disease and cancer: symptoms and treatment
…general, many years elapse from first exposure to the appearance of symptoms. Almost all these diseases are the result of dusty working conditions more than 20 years ago. In spite of the fact that the general…
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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 · 1996
Relationships between ferruginous bodies and uncoated asbestos fibers in lung tissue
…Americans to amosite. The levels of ferruginous bodies in both groups suggest exposures above those expected in the general population. Uncoated chrysotile levels were below the ranges reported previously for some general populations. The data suggest…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Asbestos exposure correlates with alterations in circulating T cell subsets
…asbestos exposure. The two groups were matched for age, sex and smoking. All were evaluated at Massachusetts General Hospital. The article did not name a fiber type. The authors counted subsets of T cells, a kind…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Comprehensive review of BAP1 tumor predisposition syndrome with report of two new cases
…13 with peritoneal disease were female. Median age at mesothelioma onset was 56 years, compared with a general-population figure of 74 that the authors cited. In the new families, the two index patients developed mesothelioma…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Malignant mesothelioma caused by childhood exposure to long-fiber low aspect ratio tremolite
…his later work. The authors dissolved lung tissue and examined the recovered fibers by electron microscope. His chrysotile level was within the general population's range. His tremolite and actinolite level was slightly elevated, but far…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Identification of miRNA-103 in the cellular fraction of human peripheral blood as a potential biomarker for malignant mesothelioma--a pilot study
…pleural mesothelioma, 17 cancer-free people formerly exposed to asbestos, and 25 volunteers from the general population. A screen of 328 microRNAs in patients and asbestos-exposed controls found 49 that differed at least threefold. Only…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
The four most pernicious myths in asbestos litigation: Part I: safe chrysotile and idiopathic mesothelioma
…data on a Connecticut friction-products factory cohort. On idiopathic mesothelioma, the author cited reviews of historical autopsy records at Massachusetts General Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital. The author concluded that virtually all, if not all…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Asbestos related disease
…spent 10 years in shipyards ripping out old insulation died of a primary mesothelioma of the right pleura. Of 23 Massachusetts General Hospital mesothelioma cases from the past 15 years, 11 had reasonably complete work histories…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
French ministries in argument over release of asbestos report
…publish the final report as a book, as originally agreed. Several independent sources alleged that the office of INSERM's director general blocked publication while awaiting authorization from the science ministry. The science minister, Claude Allègre…
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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 · 1985
Metallic elements in crude and milled chrysotile asbestos from Quebec
…present at very low levels, and calcium was not detected in crude fibers. Milled fibers showed a general increase in all metals, by factors from 1.3 to more than 15. Chromium and nickel were many…