442 results for “General Electric”, page 7 of 23
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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 1978
Asbestos exposure and related neoplasia. The 28 year experience of a major urban hospital
This was a retrospective review of hospital records for all 49 patients diagnosed with asbestosis at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston from 1945 through 1972. Asbestosis was confirmed by tissue examination in 36 patients and diagnosed…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
Immunohistochemistry in the distinction between malignant mesothelioma and pulmonary adenocarcinoma: a critical evaluation of new antibodies
This laboratory study, based on archived tissue at Southampton General Hospital, tested whether newer antibody stains could help pathologists tell malignant mesothelioma apart from lung adenocarcinoma. The authors stained tissue from 41 malignant mesotheliomas (1990 to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Promoter methylation of DAP-kinase: association with advanced stage in non-small cell lung cancer
…NSCLC). One hundred and eighty-five patients diagnosed with NSCLC undergoing surgical resection from June, 1992 through December, 1996 at Massachusetts General Hospital participated in this study. Methylation-Specific PCR (MSP), performed using fresh-frozen tissue…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Loss of heterozygosity of chromosome 3p21 is associated with mutant TP53 and better patient survival in non-small-cell lung cancer
This study examined tumors from a random subset of 260 patients with surgically removable non-small-cell lung cancer treated at Massachusetts General Hospital from November 1992 through December 1996. The authors looked for loss of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Occupational lung cancer risk for men in Germany: results from a pooled case-control study
This study pooled two German case-control studies (1988 to 1996): 3,498 men with lung cancer and 3,541 men from the general population. Lifelong job and smoking histories were collected; experts rated workplace exposures…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · September 27, 2024
Craft v. Eagle, Inc. (2024)
The Louisiana Fourth Circuit granted Climmie Craft's writ application, reversed the trial court's rulings limiting her industrial hygiene expert Kenneth Garza to general opinions, and remanded, ruling against the defendants (Ports America Gulfport, Crowley…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · July 3, 2019
Surace v. American Biltrite (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…and all cross-claims, finding fact issues on general and specific causation. A defendant cannot win summary judgment by pointing to gaps in plaintiffs' proof. Conflicting expert reports on general and specific causation, applying Parker and…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · June 25, 2020
Lamenta v. American Biltrite (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2020)
…the plaintiffs' claims and all crossclaims against it, because the plaintiffs did not raise a fact issue on general or specific causation. In a toxic tort case, expert opinion must show both that the toxin can…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Cancer incidence in a cohort of asbestos-exposed workers undergoing health surveillance
To compare a local cohort of 2488 men occupationally exposed to asbestos and enrolled in a public health surveillance program with the 1995-2009 cancer incidence of the general population of Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG) region…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
SORORIN and PLK1 as potential therapeutic targets in malignant pleural mesothelioma
…It did not study asbestos exposure. The authors measured gene activity in nine tumor samples from Toronto General Hospital and in four mesothelioma cell lines. They reported that both genes were overexpressed in a majority of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Asbestos exposure and mesothelioma mortality among atomic veterans
…ground nuclear weapons test series. Deaths through 2010 were compared with those expected from U.S. general population rates. Enlisted sailors' exposure was judged from Navy job titles ("ratings") and pay grades; officers were classed by…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Potential asbestos exposure among patients with primary lung cancer in Japan
…for workers, the study subjects may contain a higher proportion of workers than the general population. Pleural plaques were identified in 12.8% of subjects (15.8% in males and 4.9% in females), consisting exclusively…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Malignant mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis: a atypical presentation of a rare scrotal tumour
…old man with malignant mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis, the lining around the testis. He saw his general practitioner about a painless, enlarged lymph node in his right groin, with no scrotal swelling or testicular pain…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Peritoneal mesothelioma and asbestos exposure: a population-based case-control study in Lombardy, Italy
…to its rarity, PeM has rarely been investigated in community-based studies. We examined the association between asbestos exposure and PeM risk in a general population in Lombardy, Italy. From the regional mesothelioma registry, we selected…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Increased Standardised Incidence Ratio of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma in Taiwanese Asbestos Workers: A 29-Year Retrospective Cohort Study
…including MPM (ICD-9 code: 163), were obtained from the Taiwan Cancer Registry. SIRs were calculated based on comparison with the incidence rate of the general population of Taiwan and adjusted for age, calendar period, sex…