973 results for “General Electric”, page 22 of 49
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Medical study · Medical research · 1841
On the Use of Asbestos, in Stopping a Certain Class of Carious Teeth
…enough experiments had been done to make an unqualified claim. The author also stated that enough had been done to create a strong probability that asbestos would come into general demand among dentists. No patient numbers…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Tumor necrosis correlates with angiogenesis and is a predictor of poor prognosis in malignant mesothelioma
…analyzed together, necrosis was not an independent predictor of survival. Cell type, general physical condition (performance status) and blood vessel count were. Necrosis did add information to two existing prognostic scoring systems, EORTC and CALGB. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Intensity-modulated radiation therapy with simultaneous integrated boost in unresected left-sided pleural mesothelioma: a case report
…the patient underwent chemotherapy with pemetrexed. Three years from the diagnosis, the patient is alive and in good general condition. He only takes prednisone 5 mg/daily for exertional dyspnea. To the best of our knowledge…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Asbestos as an industrial health hazard
…and millers, were placed slightly lower. It said the general population did not appear to be at risk, but past cancers had occurred in people living downwind of factories and in people in workers' homes. It…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Environmental contaminants and low-level cancer risks: perceptions and scientific strategies
…concern, that data are limited and apply mostly to schools and office buildings, and that general public exposure to asbestos fibres in these buildings is apparently exceedingly low. The paper did not name a fiber type…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
Can society live with asbestos?
…agreeing the data could be interpreted in other ways. The general view at the meeting was that rigorously enforced current standards should mean virtually no health effects. Dr J C Wagner described studies of 32 man…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Occupational exposures and pancreatic cancer: a meta-analysis
…statistical test showed significant variation between these studies. Twenty populations compared with general-population rates gave a statistically significant ratio of 1.2 (1.0 to 1.5), while four case-control populations gave 0.7…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestos: a chronology of its origins and health effects
…described, Doll's 1955 study of 113 men who had worked at least 20 years where they were exposed to asbestos dust found an average lung cancer risk 10 times that of the general population. Wagner…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
Asbestos fibers contributing to the induction of human malignant mesothelioma
…tissue were chrysotile fibers. 5. The average number of asbestos fibers in both lung and mesothelial tissues was two orders of magnitude greater than the number found in the general population. 6. The majority of asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Asbestos and lung cancer: what we know
…than fourfold increased risk. These studies had been criticized for comparing insulators with the U.S. general population and for not adjusting for smoking. The new study followed 2,377 insulators with chest X-ray, spirometric…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Fever, hepatic lesions and ascites
…diagnosis of peritoneal mesothelioma. The Missouri State Geologist told a discussant there was no asbestos in the quarry where the patient had worked. When asked in general terms, the patient denied asbestos exposure. Only specific questions…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Biological effects: asbestos-cement manufacturing
… if so, then the no-threshold model for lung cancer risk is inappropriate since there is general agreement that very low exposures will not result in radiologically detectable lung fibrosis. Further data on this potential link…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
The mesotheliomas of the small intestine
…of small-intestine tumours recorded no case of mesothelioma of the small intestine. The patient, a 56-year-old Sinhalese man, was admitted to the General Hospital, Colombo, in December 1962 with gross abdominal swelling, pain…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Forensic detection and investigation of occupational-environmental disease
…been found in 7 to 11% of deaths after asbestos exposure, compared with about 0.1 or 0.01% of deaths in the nonexposed general population. It also stated that pleural plaques and asbestos (ferruginous) bodies…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Letter to the Editor re Bernstein et al: Health risk of chrysotile revisited. Crit Rev Toxicol, 2013; 43(2): 154-183
…and millers with pleural mesothelioma than in miners without asbestos-related disease. Churg and Wiggs (1986) found long chrysotile fibers in the lungs of many exposed workers but few general-population controls. Rogers and colleagues (1991)…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Awake video-assisted pleural decortication for empyema thoracis
…by video-assisted keyhole surgery in 15, and by open thoracotomy in four with major pleural thickening. None needed general anaesthesia. During surgery the blood oxygen measure showed no significant overall change; carbon dioxide rose slightly…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Parental occupational exposure and risk of childhood central nervous system tumors: a pooled analysis of case-control studies from Germany, France, and the UK
…face-to-face or by telephone. A general population job-exposure matrix was used to assign a level of exposure to each job. Logistic regression models were fitted to compute odds ratios and 95 % confidence intervals…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
The subject of continuous vigilance
…has brought with it concomitant and widespread contamination of the environment. The need to control asbestos is required in the forms of legislation and surveillance, to prevent the spread of asbestos disease into the general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Tremolite/chrysotile ratios
…on lung fibers in processed-chrysotile workers, chrysotile miners, and the general population. That paper had reported a tremolite-to-chrysotile ratio of 9.7 for processed-ore workers. The letter writers said the paper's…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Editorial: Exposure to asbestos dust
…crocidolite (blue) asbestos than to other fibres. It reported that a 1972 International Agency for Research on Cancer committee found no indication of a risk to the general public. It stated that about 200 mesotheliomas were…