434 results for “General Electric”, page 9 of 22
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestos-related benign disease and cancer: symptoms and treatment
…general, many years elapse from first exposure to the appearance of symptoms. Almost all these diseases are the result of dusty working conditions more than 20 years ago. In spite of the fact that the general…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Asbestosis and lobar site of lung cancer
…68.8% among workers with asbestosis were in the lower lobes, compared with 28.6% in the city's general population. A later cohort of 4060 asbestos workers (1985–96) used the same upper-plus-lower…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Asbestos related disease
…spent 10 years in shipyards ripping out old insulation died of a primary mesothelioma of the right pleura. Of 23 Massachusetts General Hospital mesothelioma cases from the past 15 years, 11 had reasonably complete work histories…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
Pathological and environmental aspects of asbestos-associated diseases
…It summarised other researchers' work. Doll (1955) reported that asbestos workers had a lung cancer death rate ten times that of the general population. Selikoff and colleagues (1968) reported that asbestos insulation workers who smoked regularly…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1955
Carcinoma of the lung in asbestosis: report of two additional cases
…their lungs (8.2 per cent). Over the same period and age range, their hospital's general rate was 1.5 per cent. No fiber type was named. The authors concluded that this and other series…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Prospective study of asbestos-related diseases incidence cases in primary health care in an area of Barcelona province
…mesothelioma, asbestos-related pulmonary carcinoma, asbestosis and pleural plaques. General practitioners were to refer suspected cases to a respiratory specialist for confirmation. Trained researchers were then to interview patients or relatives about exposure source (work, family…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Current issues in the pathologic and mineralogic diagnosis of asbestos-induced disease
…as the main problem. The author wrote that a million chrysotile fibers per gram of dry lung fit general-population background levels. A million amosite or crocidolite fibers per gram almost certainly indicated substantial occupational exposure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
The role of analytical techniques in the diagnosis of asbestos-associated disease
…mesothelioma patients as a group had a greatly increased lung asbestos burden, but a sizeable number had fiber counts within the general-population range. The authors concluded that microanalysis can aid diagnosis by providing exposure information…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Mortality among employees of an Ontario factory manufacturing insulation materials from amosite asbestos
…from chest X-ray surveillance records. The list was matched to national death records, and deaths were compared with Ontario's general male population. Among workers classed as asbestos-exposed, 12 died 10 or more years…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1978
Awkward medicolegal problems in asbestos-induced disease. Problems in law
…to mesothelioma, asbestos bodies in the lungs of ordinary people, mesothelioma without a known cause in the general population, and the combined effect of smoking in lung cancer all made causation hard to decide. He noted…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
Lung disease related to exposure to asbestos
…suggestive, and four to five as conclusive. Lung cancer was described as about ten times more frequent in asbestos workers than in the general population. Mesothelioma was described as following exposure as short as 3 months…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestos: a chronology of its origins and health effects
…by Leeds doctors. They reported that Dr Ian M D Grieve, a Leeds general practitioner in the 1920s, saw patients from a local factory that made insulation mattresses for steam engines from blue asbestos, which had…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1975
Review article. Asbestosis: a reassessment of the overall problem
…example, it reported a mesothelioma risk in insulation workers of 10 per 307, compared with 3 per 31,652 in the general population. The author stated that ingestion had not been shown to cause gastrointestinal cancer…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1996
Asbestos exposure and asbestosis
…asbestos particles building up in the lung, as clear. But the author objected to the article using the general term 'asbestos exposure' for non-cancerous pleural disease, since that disease, asbestosis and the cancers linked to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
The pathology of asbestos related disease
…from 1 000 000 to several hundred million in severe asbestosis. It reported that mesothelioma cases in general had chrysotile counts no higher than controls. It described mesothelioma cases with no asbestos bodies in lung sections…
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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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.