442 results for “General Electric”, page 8 of 23
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Mortality Update of a Cohort of Canadian Petroleum Workers
…petroleum company through December 31, 2006. Standardized mortality ratios were generated for all-cause and specific cause mortality. All cause and all cancer mortality were favorable compared with the general Canadian population. Cancers of previous interest…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Mortality among shipbreaking workers in Taiwan--a retrospective cohort study from 1985 to 2008
…from 1985 to 2008. The mortality ratios-standardized for age and calendar years-(SMRs) for various causes of deaths were calculated with reference to the general population of Taiwan. Among men workers, a statistically significant increased…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Lung cancer and mesothelioma risk assessment for a population environmentally exposed to asbestos
…city in Quebec, Canada, provided an opportunity to undertake a prospective cancer risk assessment in the general population exposed to these concentrations. Using an updated Berman and Crump dose-response model for asbestos exposure, we selected…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Lung cancer and mesothelioma in the pleura and peritoneum among Swedish insulation workers
…some years after the exposure had ended. In a cohort study the cancer morbidity and cause of death was investigated in 248 insulation workers and compared with the corresponding morbidity and mortality in the general population…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Absence of evidence for a significant background incidence of diffuse malignant mesothelioma apart from asbestos exposure
…1940s. One must conclude that the background level of diffuse malignant mesothelioma in Europe and in the United States prior to 1930 was extremely low. No case was detected at the Massachusetts General Hospital until 1946.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Maintenance work and asbestos-related cancers in the refinery and petrochemical sector
…are at increased risk of lung cancer. The author noted that refinery and petrochemical workers overall have lower lung cancer rates than the general population, with one review reporting lung cancer mortality at 77% of the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Occupational exposure to carcinogens and risk of lung cancer: results from The Netherlands cohort study
…dust, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and welding fumes) in a prospective cohort study among the general population, and to estimate the proportion of lung cancer cases attributable to these occupational exposures. A prospective cohort study on diet…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Utility of BAP1 Immunohistochemistry and p16 (CDKN2A) FISH in the Diagnosis of Malignant Mesothelioma in Effusion Cytology Specimens
…two tests could help diagnose malignant mesothelioma from fluid drained from the chest or abdomen (effusion cytology) instead of tissue biopsy. From Vancouver General Hospital files, the authors took 15 patients with epithelial mesothelioma (13 pleural…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Mortality of a cohort of men in a silicosis register: further evidence of an association with lung cancer
…on a Hong Kong silicosis compensation register from July 1980 through 1986, comparing deaths with those expected in Hong Kong's general male population. They had excluded 68 workers thought to have had past or concomitant…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Mesothelioma and lung cancer mortality: a historical cohort study among asbestosis workers in Hong Kong
…all 124 men newly diagnosed with asbestosis at Hong Kong's Pneumoconiosis Clinic between 1981 and 2008 until the end of 2008. Deaths were compared with male general population rates. Most worked in shipyards or construction…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Asbestos-related pleural plaques and lung cancer
…pleural plaques and lung cancer in the absence of parenchymal asbestosis. There were six cohort studies in which the comparison group was limited to unexposed persons or the general population, four lung cancer case-control studies…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
A genome-wide association study for malignant mesothelioma risk
This genome-wide association study looked for inherited DNA variants (SNPs) linked to malignant mesothelioma risk. The authors compared 428 mesothelioma patients from Western Australia and Queensland with 1269 general-population controls from Busselton, Western Australia…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Association of cigarette smoking and asbestos exposure with location and histology of lung cancer
The authors analyzed 456 patients with newly diagnosed, surgically removed stage I or II lung cancer at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, from December 1992 to August 1996. The patients were the case group of a larger…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Tuberculosis and risk of cancer: a Danish nationwide cohort study
…Danish nationwide databases, we quantified cancer risk in TB patients during 1978-2011 compared with the general population. We observed 1747 cancers in 15 024 TB patients (median follow-up 8.5 years), reflecting a standardised…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1951
Asbestosis associated with bronchogenic carcinoma
…cancer and asbestosis, and reviewed earlier published reports of lung cancer occurring together with asbestosis. The patient was a 40-year-old white man admitted to Queens General Hospital with cough, fever and weakness. He had…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Significance of asbestos in lung tissue
…is an abstract of a talk the author, of the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit in Penarth, gave at the 88th general meeting of the Association of Clinical Pathologists. It reports no patients, measurements or numerical study results…
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Court case · West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals · December 19, 1980
Powell v. State Workmen's Compensation Com'r (1980)
…Code § 23-4-1 even though it also occurs in the general public, and the claimant need not prove an intermediate occupational disease such as asbestosis or negate all non-occupational causes such as smoking. Causation…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · September 16, 2013
Watts v. Georgia-Pacific Corp. (2013)
…fault law a proven co-obligor's virile share reduces the recoverable award. Awards of general damages are not disturbed absent an abuse of the jury's great discretion. Statute of Limitations; Employer and Contractor Liability…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · May 28, 2003
Kemp v. Armstrong World Industries (2003)
…tort law to apply must show with factual support that significant exposures before September 1988 later caused the disease. A history of heavy smoking and general medical opinions are not enough. Causation worker in chemical plants
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Court case · North Carolina Court of Appeals · July 17, 1979
Bullard v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1979)
…lung cancer was caused by workplace asbestos exposure, because no expert said asbestos caused it and the evidence showed only an increased general risk or a possible contributing cause. Causation; Expert Testimony Worksites: Johns-Manville plant…