3 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
The priority for recognizing asbestos as a multicentre carcinogen, and problems in categorizing asbestos tumours
…cited an earlier register study of 246 malignant mesothelioma cases in which three had additional primary cancers. That was not significantly different from the 1.2% rate in a separate review of 3,771 general autopsies.
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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…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
Mesothelioma register 1967-68
…but, in general, mesothelioma occured at an earlier age than carcinoma of bronchus and lung' or all malignant tumours' in the Registrar General's statistical mortality tables. Concomitant asbestosis and the finding of asbestos bodies or…