3 results for “General Electric”
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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 · 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 · 1981
The second diagnosis: the role of the pathologist in identifying pneumoconioses in lungs excised for tumor
This short review in the journal's Current Topics section, written by a lung pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, argued that pathologists examining lungs removed for tumor should also make a 'second diagnosis' of disease in…