973 results for “General Electric”, page 21 of 49
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Occupation and risk of stomach cancer in Poland
…between 1994 and 1996. Controls (n = 479) were randomly selected from the general population in Warsaw. Only a few occupations and industries were associated with significantly increased risks of stomach cancer. The most suggestive finding…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Asbestos associated tumours in car mechanics
…cancer register (1961-79, ages 20 to 69), and compared observed cases with the numbers expected from the general population. One mesothelioma was found in the cancer register and none in the death register. That man…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Report of the Advisory Committee on Asbestos Cancers to the Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer
…137 participants from 20 countries; the committee then reported on evidence since 1964. It answered general questions and recommended research. It stated that all major commercial asbestos types can cause lung carcinoma, with clear risk differences…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Primary mesothelioma of atrioventricular node: cause of sudden death
…by epithelial cells within dense fibrous tissue, which destroyed much of the conducting tissue. The author noted general agreement that this kind of lesion is congenital, meaning present from birth, but some disagreement about where it…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Updates on the cytogenetics and molecular genetics of bone and soft tissue tumors. Mesothelioma
…that article's methods, findings or conclusions. The chapter is a general overview of chromosome changes across many bone and soft tissue tumors and does not discuss asbestos. Outside its reference list, it mentions mesothelioma only…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Proxy respondents and the validity of occupational and other exposure data. The Selected Cancers Cooperative Study Group
…as correct. Proxy interviews were completed for 270 of the 310 men who died. Proxies reported general smoking history well: for ever having been a regular smoker, sensitivity and specificity were both 95 percent. Reporting of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Asbestos bodies
…protein coat. They cited their own separate analysis, which examined the cores of over 600 bodies from more than 80 patients in the general population and found that the cores were asbestos. In that analysis, 98…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Quantitative analysis of asbestos burden in a series of individuals with lung cancer and a history of exposure to asbestos
…Seventeen of the 20 cases were positive for ferruginous bodies (which were morphologically consistent with asbestos bodies). Five of these were found to have concentrations within the range used in our laboratory for the general population (
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
International classification trial of AIA set of 100 radiographs of asbestos workers
…the best estimate for each film. For small opacities in the lung tissue, the authors judged that differences between readers were not large compared with general variability in reading. Even so, the share of films each…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
Unsuspected exposure to asbestos and bronchogenic carcinoma
…lung cancer. None had asbestosis or had worked in asbestos manufacturing. Each man was matched by age with a male control from general hospitals in the same catchment area. Of the 201 men with cancer, 58…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Dysphagia due to mesothelioma infiltrating the oesophagus: palliative treatment
…found a tumour completely blocking it. A guide wire could not be passed through the stricture, so a tube was placed in the oesophagus under general anaesthetic via a gastrotomy. Afterwards she improved quickly, went home…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Malignant mesothelioma in British Columbia in 1982
…construction or insulation trades. In lung tissue from six men, chrysotile was within the general-population range, but amosite and crocidolite were raised about 300-fold on average; two men also had raised noncommercial amphiboles such…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Clinical impact of extrapleural pneumonectomy for malignant pleural mesothelioma
…afterward; the median mental score went from 45 (29 patients) to 19 at 24 months (10 patients), though general health stayed above baseline (20 versus 25). Respiratory-questionnaire scores returned to preoperative levels after 24 months…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Diagnosis and prognostic factors in malignant pleural mesothelioma: a retrospective analysis of sixty-five patients
…years. In the main statistical model, only early (stage I) disease and good performance status (a WHO measure of general functioning) were significantly linked to longer survival. Asbestos exposure was not a significant predictor of survival…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1996
Asbestos exposure and asbestosis
…asbestos particles building up in the lung, as clear. But the author objected to the article using the general term 'asbestos exposure' for non-cancerous pleural disease, since that disease, asbestosis and the cancers linked to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
The priority for recognizing asbestos as a multicentre carcinogen, and problems in categorizing asbestos tumours
…cited an earlier register study of 246 malignant mesothelioma cases in which three had additional primary cancers. That was not significantly different from the 1.2% rate in a separate review of 3,771 general autopsies.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Occupational exposure and laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancer risk in central and eastern Europe
…For laryngeal cancer, the odds ratio for ever exposure to asbestos in general was 0.86 (95% CI 0.51 to 1.45), and for chrysotile asbestos it was 0.78 (0.44 to 1.40…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Thoracoscopic palliative treatment of malignant pleural effusions: results in 273 patients
…110 (40.3%), and bilateral in 27 (9.9%). Thoracoscopy was performed under general anaesthesia in all patients. Pleural biopsy was performed in two thirds of the patients (70.7%). Pleurodesis was produced by instillation of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Volumetry: an alternative to assess therapy response for malignant pleural mesothelioma?
…a low interobserver agreement for tumour response classification (general κ 0.33). Only 14 patients were classified equally. A high inter-rater reliability (0.99) and interobserver agreement (general κ 0.9) were found for absolute…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
The pathology of asbestos related disease
…from 1 000 000 to several hundred million in severe asbestosis. It reported that mesothelioma cases in general had chrysotile counts no higher than controls. It described mesothelioma cases with no asbestos bodies in lung sections…