3 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Mortality and cancer morbidity in a cohort of Canadian petroleum workers
…1964 and 1994 and worked at least one year. Their records were linked to national death and cancer registry data and compared with the general Canadian population. The authors also estimated exposure to hydrocarbon solvents/fuels…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Updated mortality among diverse operating segments of a petroleum company
…in the earlier study. Analyses used standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) to compare worker cause specific mortality with the Canadian general population. Duration of employment and latency analyses were performed for causes previously found to be increased…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Lung cancer incidence in Canadian petroleum workers
…cancer incidence, although exposures to the single agents studied did not emerge as strong predictors of lung cancer incidence. Maintenance work may be a surrogate for general exposures to several agents (eg, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, metals…