973 results for “General Electric”, page 6 of 49
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Peritoneal mesothelioma masquerading as an inguinal hernia
This was a case report about one patient treated in the Department of General Surgery at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport, UK. An 80-year-old retired steel worker came to hospital with what looked…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Distant visceral metastases in pleural mesothelioma
This was an autopsy study from the pathology department of the Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, of 32 cases of pleural mesothelioma. Each case was confirmed under the microscope after a post-mortem examination. The article did…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
A comparison of asbestos burden in lung parenchyma, lymph nodes, and plaques
…plaques and pleura are not useful for mineral analysis, and they designed the study to test it. Tissue was collected at autopsy at the General Hospital of Monfalcone, Italy, from eight former shipyard workers (seven men…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Asbestos-related pleural thickening: effect of threshold criteria on interpretation
This study, from the radiology department of Massachusetts General Hospital, examined how the rule for what counts as pleural thickening on a chest X-ray changes survey results. Chest radiographs from 1,216 workers at six…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1971
Asbestos in tumours
This is a short abstract of a talk given at the 86th general meeting of the Association of Clinical Pathologists, by an author at the M.R.C. Pneumoconiosis Unit in Penarth, Glamorgan. It is not…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Homozygous deletion of p16INK4a and tobacco carcinogen exposure in nonsmall cell lung cancer
This study examined 177 consecutive non-small cell lung cancers removed at Massachusetts General Hospital from November 1992 to January 1996. Smoking history and occupational asbestos exposure came from an interviewer-administered questionnaire. The authors tested…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Asbestos lung burden and asbestosis after occupational and environmental exposure in an asbestos cement manufacturing area: a necropsy study
This necropsy (autopsy) study examined lung tissue from the consecutive autopsies done at the General Hospital of Casale Monferrato, Italy, home to a large asbestos cement factory, from July 1985 to July 1988. Of 55 autopsies…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Exfoliative cytology of diffuse mesothelioma
This article was a case series from the Pathology Department of the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow. The authors described the cells found in fluid samples from 14 patients with diffuse mesothelioma: pleural fluid from 11…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis of the testis
This case report from the Departments of Surgery and Histopathology at Southend General Hospital, Southend on Sea, England, described malignant mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis of the testis. A 62-year-old man presented with a…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Lung cancer risk in past asbestos workers a few decades after exposure cessation and prospects for screening
To ascertain whether the current risk of lung cancer in former asbestos workers was higher than in the general population, 1,557 past asbestos workers were recruited during statutory health examinations (from 2000 onward) and followed…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1943
Cancer In Its Relation To Occupation And Environment
This 1943 article by W.C. Hueper was a general overview, not a study with its own new data. The author described cancers linked to work and to the wider environment and listed counts of cases…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1961
Carcinogens In The Human Environment
This is the author's review of published evidence on possible cancer-causing agents in consumer goods and the general environment. The text supplied is only the April 1961 second part. It surveyed food additives and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Environmental and Occupational Exposure to Asbestos as a Result of Consumption and Use in Poland
This study combined existing data sources to describe asbestos exposure, at work and in the general environment, across Poland's counties. The authors used records of asbestos imports and manufacturing plants, an earlier estimate of asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Antioxidant vitamin and mineral supplements for preventing age-related macular degeneration
This Cochrane review of randomised controlled trials asked whether antioxidant vitamin or mineral supplements prevent age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in the general population. It included five trials with 76,756 people in Australia, Finland and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Jejunal Perforation by Metastasis of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
This Spanish-language letter to the editor, by authors from the surgery department of Hospital General Universitario Santa Lucía in Cartagena, Spain, described one patient. The patient was a 67-year-old man with malignant pleural…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Asbestos content of omentum and mesentery in nonoccupationally exposed individuals
…electron microscopy for defining the asbestos burden in digested lung, omentum, and mesentery tissues from individuals considered as representing the general population in East Texas. The findings, when compared with previous data from occupationally exposed individuals…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Asbestosis and primary intrathoracic neoplasms
This paper from Britain's Factory Inspectorate analyzed death certificates recording asbestosis. Registrars General for England and Wales and for Scotland supplied the certificates routinely. It also briefly reviewed early reports linking asbestosis with lung cancer…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1966
Asbestos, an extrinsic factor in the pathogenesis of bronchogenic carcinoma and mesothelioma
This was a retrospective report on 55 patients with pathologically proven pulmonary asbestosis seen at Lancaster General Hospital, Pennsylvania, between 1940 and 1965. All but one had worked in the same asbestos textile plant, which carded…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Association between diet and lung cancer location
This study used data from a hospital case-control study to look at 328 patients with newly diagnosed primary lung cancer at Massachusetts General Hospital between December 1992 and August 1996. Almost all had tumors that…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Asbestos fibres and the environment
This article in a British Medical Journal series on pollution reviewed what was known about asbestos fibres and the risk to the general public. The author first discussed why cancer risk differed between groups of asbestos…