2 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
A study of lung cancer mortality in asbestos workers: Doll, 1955
…mice by asbestos, were circulated in confidence to its scientists, but being unpublished were unknown to the general scientific community. There were also cancer mortality data recorded for populations of exposed asbestos workers, but these were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
The doctors and the dockers
…The Registrar General's occupational mortality report for 1951, noted excess tumors of the lung and stomach for dockers. Elevated Standardized Mortality Ratios for lung cancer had consistently been calculated by the Registrar General for the…