973 results for “General Electric”, page 32 of 49
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Radiological abnormalities and asbestos exposure among custodians of the New York City Board of Education
…New York City Board of Education underwent examination from 1985 through 1987 for asbestos-related disease and other general medical conditions by the clinical staff of the Division of Environmental and Occupational Medicine of the Mount…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Palliative treatment of malignant pleural effusions
…for malignant pleural effusion. From January 2002 to December 2004, 50 VATS procedures were performed under general anaesthesia on 48 patients for malignant pleural effusion. There were 45 women and 3 men with a median age…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Survey of British pathologists' performance of mesothelioma post-mortems
…a questionnaire was sent to all UK Consultant Histopathologists, and 12% were recruited. In general post-mortems, the Coroner approved 60% of requests for organ retention, and Pathologists failed to make such a request in 5…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
A decade of malignant mesothelioma surveillance in Korea
…cases in Korea. In 2001, The Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency organized a nationwide cardiopulmonary pathology group and established a malignant mesothelioma surveillance system covering all general hospitals in Korea. Mesothelioma cases were reported to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Asbestos fibre burden in the lungs of patients with mesothelioma who lived near asbestos-cement factories
…residence to both plants. To provide information on the intensity of environmental asbestos exposure, in the general population living around these factories, through the evaluation of the lung fibre burden in mesothelioma patients. We analysed by…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
Health aspects of man-made mineral fibres. A review
…in production for over 40 years. The diameter of the fibres has in general been too large to cause a high concentration of respirable fibrous dust during manufacturing or use. Medical studies in several countries of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Indirect exposures: the significance of bystanders at work and at home
…significance of such hazard dissemination has been evaluated in studies dealing mostly with asbestos and lead. The general lessons learned from this evidence would suggest that indirect exposures may occur much more commonly than suspected. Thus…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Airborne concentrations of chrysotile asbestos in serpentine quarries and stone processing facilities in Valmalenco, Italy
…cases, there is the possibility of releasing asbestos fibres into the atmosphere from the rock or soil, subsequently exposing workers and the general population, which can lead to an increased risk of developing asbestos-related diseases…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Evaluating chemical risks: results of a survey of the British Toxicology Society
…the toxicity of the chemicals involved. 6. In general, British toxicologists were equivocal about the reliability of animal studies in predicting human effects (particularly carcinogenicity) probably because of the belief that animal studies overestimate risk. However…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Detection of serum p53 protein in lung cancer patients
…with potential asbestos exposure), 23 unexposed matched hospital control subjects, 58 unmatched general population control subjects, and 4 people with nonmalignant lung disease using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and Western immunoblotting. Average levels of serum…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
Updated epidemiological study of workers at two California petroleum refineries, 1950-95
…cohort study of workers at two petroleum refineries in California was undertaken. Mortality analyses were based on standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) using the general population of California as a reference…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Modulating factors in the expression of radiation-induced oncogenic transformation
…scored, to those in human cells growing in nude mice where tumor invasiveness is scored. In general, systems that are most quantitative are also the least relevant in terms of human carcinogenesis and human risk estimation…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Augmentation of chrysotile-induced oxidative stress by BHA in mice lungs
Asbestos is known to induce oxidative stress in the lung. The consumption of butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) in preserved food and soft drinks is increasing in the general population, which includes workers in asbestos factories. Because there…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Risk factors associated with asbestos-related diseases: a community-based case-control study
…is a first level carcinogen. However, few epidemiological studies analyse the risk and protective factors associated with asbestos-related diseases and follow up these conditions in the general population. Pleural mesothelioma, caused by inhalation of asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Utility of a CEA, CD15, calretinin, and CK5/6 panel for distinguishing between mesotheliomas and pulmonary adenocarcinomas in clinical practice
…mesothelioma from pulmonary adenocarcinoma originated from academic centers or specialized immunohistochemistry laboratories, but little is known about how such stains perform in general practice laboratories. The Canadian Immunohistochemistry Quality Control program circulates tissue array slides to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
The second diagnosis: the role of the pathologist in identifying pneumoconioses in lungs excised for tumor
This short review in the journal's Current Topics section, written by a lung pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, argued that pathologists examining lungs removed for tumor should also make a 'second diagnosis' of disease in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
A cancer incidence and mortality study of Dow Chemical Canada Inc. manufacturing sites
…cancer incidence risk among chemical manufacturing sites. We followed 5277 men and 1301 women from 1950 to 1999. Employees experienced lower mortality and cancer incidence rates than the general population for several major causes of death…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Identification of specific gene copy number changes in asbestos-related lung cancer
…vivo experiments have shown that asbestos can cause chromosomal damage and aberrations. Lung tumors, in general, have several recurrently amplified and deleted chromosomal regions. To investigate whether a distinct chromosomal aberration profile could be detected in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Pleural mesothelioma and lung cancer risks in relation to occupational history and asbestos lung burden
We have conducted a population-based study of pleural mesothelioma patients with occupational histories and measured asbestos lung burdens in occupationally exposed workers and in the general population. The relationship between lung burden and risk, particularly…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Occupational lung cancer
Exposure to certain industrial agents has been thought to have carcinogenic potential, both for employees who work closely with such agents and for the general population that comes in contact with them. Although case reports, laboratory…