973 results for “General Electric”, page 20 of 49
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
An association between postoperative radiotherapy for primary breast cancer in 11 National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) studies and the subsequent appearance of pleural mesothelioma
…Using national registry (SEER) rates, 0.80 cases were expected among irradiated women, a relative risk of 3.74 compared with the general population. Among non-irradiated women, 1.13 cases were expected and none occurred…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Asbestos-related cancers in refinery workers in the Australian petroleum industry
…77 (95% confidence interval = 1.95-6.59). The incidence of lung cancer was significantly lower than that in the general male population. Lung cancer incidence was higher in maintenance workers than in nonmaintenance workers…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1978
Awkward medicolegal problems in asbestos-induced disease. Problems in law
…to mesothelioma, asbestos bodies in the lungs of ordinary people, mesothelioma without a known cause in the general population, and the combined effect of smoking in lung cancer all made causation hard to decide. He noted…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Adenomatoid hyperplasia of mucous salivary glands. Report of two cases
…lesion in the right soft palate with recurrent swelling and discomfort that got worse with swallowing and chewing. It was removed under general anesthesia. The specimen measured 0.9 x 0.8 x 0.6 cm…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Combined effect of asbestos and smoking on mortality from lung cancer and mesothelioma in factory workers
…Deaths were tracked to 1980. There was no unexposed comparison group, so lung cancer deaths were compared with numbers expected from death rates in the general population of the region, adjusted for smoking. After this adjustment…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Flex-rigid pleuroscopy under local anesthesia in patients with dry pleural dissemination on radiography
…mesothelioma in 2 and chronic inflammation in 3. The remaining patient was suspected of malignant pleural mesothelioma and was diagnosed with it after a second biopsy under general anesthesia. Two dry-group patients had minor complications…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
Chrysotile asbestos: health effects
…at the workplace for 50 years) resulted in unacceptable health hazards. The workers' general health was comparable to that of Quebec Province's population. The author stated that the Rockville quarries contain much less chrysotile than…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Malignant mesothelioma after environmental exposure to blue asbestos
…or as employees of CSR or ABA, the cohort was 4890 (2187 men, 2703 women). Residents were exposed through general contamination from milling, mill tailings used on roads, yards and playgrounds, and household contact with workers…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Causes of death in a cohort of 260 plutonium workers
…in the admittedly biased self-selected cohort of the first 260 deceased participants in the USTUR revealed, in general, no apparently elevated causes of death except for six cases of mesothelioma and six cases of astrocytoma…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Canada, chrysotile and cancer: Health Canada's Asbestos International Expert Panel report
…mesothelioma and asbestosis. Describing other studies, the author reported a general consensus that chrysotile is less potent than amphiboles for mesothelioma, by a highly uncertain amount. The author called the evidence of a difference for lung…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Efflux of reduced glutathione after exposure of human lung epithelial cells to crocidolite asbestos
…hour in that medium, so the authors suggested it was released from the cells continuously. They found no sign of general membrane damage. Activity of the enzyme gamma glutamylcysteine synthetase fell by 47%, while four other…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
Lung disease related to exposure to asbestos
…suggestive, and four to five as conclusive. Lung cancer was described as about ten times more frequent in asbestos workers than in the general population. Mesothelioma was described as following exposure as short as 3 months…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
A novel approach: transumbilical endoscopic exploration and biopsy for patients with unknown ascites
…Medical University, Harbin, China. After the patient underwent general anesthesia and artificial pneumoperitoneum, a 1.0-cm trocar was placed at the umbilical region. After initial observation of the whole peritoneal cavity with a laparoscope, a…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Solid cancer mortality associated with chronic external radiation exposure at the French atomic energy commission and nuclear fuel company
…the mean cumulative dose was 12.1 mSv. Mortality rates for all causes and all solid cancers were both significantly lower in this cohort than in the general population. A significant excess of deaths from pleural…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestos: a chronology of its origins and health effects
…by Leeds doctors. They reported that Dr Ian M D Grieve, a Leeds general practitioner in the 1920s, saw patients from a local factory that made insulation mattresses for steam engines from blue asbestos, which had…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Long-term pulmonary exposure to multi-walled carbon nanotubes promotes breast cancer metastatic cascades
…days, exposed mice had lung inflammation, granulomatous lesions and fibrosis, with no significant change in general health. Mouse breast cancer cells were then implanted in five mice per group. Tumour growth did not differ between groups…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
The combined effects of smoking and occupational or urban factors in relation to lung cancer
…risk in certain occupational groups, studies on general populations show that the effect of smoking is large compared with that of "urban" factors and there is no indication of any interaction between smoking and air pollution.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Nonoccupational exposure to chrysotile asbestos and the risk of lung cancer
…and crocidolite fibers per gram of dry lung. The laboratory's maximal general-population background for amosite plus crocidolite is 10,000 fibers per gram of dry lung. The second and third had asbestosis at autopsy…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1975
Review article. Asbestosis: a reassessment of the overall problem
…example, it reported a mesothelioma risk in insulation workers of 10 per 307, compared with 3 per 31,652 in the general population. The author stated that ingestion had not been shown to cause gastrointestinal cancer…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
Asbestos bodies and fibers in lung tissues
…lung from 14 people with pleural mesothelioma, 11 with severe occupational asbestosis with lung fibrosis and squamous carcinoma, and 52 unselected patients from the general population. By light microscopy, all unselected patients had a few asbestos…