973 results for “General Electric”, page 19 of 49
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Cancer mortality and asbestos deposits
…did not have known asbestos deposits. The study of cancer mortality rates in these matched counties provides no evidence that naturally-occurring asbestos is a great hazard to the general population of counties with asbestos depostis.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Asbestos-related pleural disease
…plaques. The article did not name the type of asbestos fiber he was exposed to. His physician was Irving Selikoff. The rest of the article was a general overview, with a bibliography, of asbestos history, fiber…
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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 · 2010
Prospective study of asbestos-related diseases incidence cases in primary health care in an area of Barcelona province
…mesothelioma, asbestos-related pulmonary carcinoma, asbestosis and pleural plaques. General practitioners were to refer suspected cases to a respiratory specialist for confirmation. Trained researchers were then to interview patients or relatives about exposure source (work, family…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Malignant pleural mesothelioma treatment: the current state of the art
…directly into the chest cavity. The authors wrote that prognosis was influenced more by known prognostic factors, such as a patient's general fitness and stage of disease, than by treatment. In their reading of the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Review of carbon nanotubes toxicity and exposure--appraisal of human health risk assessment based on open literature
…which the authors read as pointing to a possible risk for workers. Estimated environmental air levels were much lower than the 0.25 µg/m3 level derived for the general public. In the reviewed animal studies…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Factors affecting the mesothelioma detection rate within national and international epidemiological studies: insights from Scottish linked cancer registry-mortality data
…up 4% to 7% of these deaths. The General Register Office for Scotland reported that these codes were mainly used for mesothelioma when asbestos exposure was mentioned. The authors concluded that counting these poisoning codes may…
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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 · 1983
Current issues in the pathologic and mineralogic diagnosis of asbestos-induced disease
…as the main problem. The author wrote that a million chrysotile fibers per gram of dry lung fit general-population background levels. A million amosite or crocidolite fibers per gram almost certainly indicated substantial occupational exposure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Incidence of cancer and mortality among workers exposed to mercury vapour in the Norwegian chloralkali industry
…the mortality were followed up from 1953 to 1989 and 1953 to 1988 respectively. The general Norwegian male population served as a reference population. There was a lung cancer excess of borderline significance (standardised incidence ratio…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
Pulmonary asbestos body counts and electron probe analysis of asbestos body cores in patients with mesothelioma: a study of 25 cases
…fiberglass fibers. The malignant mesothelioma patients had asbestos body counts intermediate between those of the general population and those of patients with asbestosis, although some of the mesothelioma cases overlapped with the general population. These latter…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
The role of analytical techniques in the diagnosis of asbestos-associated disease
…mesothelioma patients as a group had a greatly increased lung asbestos burden, but a sizeable number had fiber counts within the general-population range. The authors concluded that microanalysis can aid diagnosis by providing exposure information…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Mortality among employees of an Ontario factory manufacturing insulation materials from amosite asbestos
…from chest X-ray surveillance records. The list was matched to national death records, and deaths were compared with Ontario's general male population. Among workers classed as asbestos-exposed, 12 died 10 or more years…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Growth inhibition and induction of apoptosis in mesothelioma cells by selenium and dependence on selenoprotein SEP15 genotype
…Reducing SEP15 in a sensitive line made it less responsive. The variant's distribution did not differ statistically significantly between blood from 36 mesothelioma patients and 48 people from the general population. The authors concluded that…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Immunohistochemical reactivity in mesothelioma and adenocarcinoma: a stepwise logistic regression analysis
…tissue from 103 malignant mesotheliomas from two Swedish hospitals, Malmo General and Huddinge University, and from 43 adenocarcinoma metastases of the pleura from Malmo General Hospital autopsy files. A monoclonal anti-CEA antibody stained 70% of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Primary diffuse malignant peritoneal mesothelioma: case report and update of therapy
…on light microscopy, histochemistry, and immunohistochemistry. Patient had no further treatment because of her poor general conditions. She died 4 months later. Update of treatment is briefly described with particular attention to multimodality approach (surgery, chemotherapy…
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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…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Update of the Texaco mortality study 1947-93: Part II
…colleagues in their update of the Texaco mortality study. The author argued that refinery workers as a group have had lower lung cancer rates than the general population, so maintenance workers exposed to asbestos should be…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Hazards of white asbestos
…current or ex-smokers, against less than 0.5% of women. Compared with the general population, lung cancer mortality was estimated at about 17-fold in men and four-fold in women. People tended to be…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
French agency agrees to publication of asbestos report
…Marimbert, head of the ministry's department of labour relations, to INSERM's director general stated that INSERM representatives had decided not to publish the final report at INSERM Editions, and it demanded a reversal. The…