3 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Relation between exposure to asbestos and mesothelioma
…53 from lung cancer. For comparison, an American Cancer Society general-population study recorded only 3 deaths from pleural mesothelioma among 31,652 deaths. Among the 10 workers who died of mesothelioma, none developed it less…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Diseases associated with asbestos exposure. Diagnostic perspectives in forensic pathology
…from highest to lowest risk: direct occupational, indirect occupational, neighborhood, and household and family. They said the risk from general environmental exposure was not known. They described pleural effusions, pleural plaques, asbestosis, pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Survival of asbestos insulation workers with mesothelioma
Malignant mesothelioma is a lethal disease. It is rare in the general population; however, workers exposed to asbestos suffer significant burdens of the neoplasm. The survival time of 457 consecutive fatal cases of pleural and peritoneal…