8 results for “General Electric”
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Court case · Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court · July 18, 2016
City of Williamsport v. Workers'compensation Appeal Board (2016)
…carcinogen. An expert's opinion on exposure must rest on facts in the record, not on general assumptions about the firefighting profession. Expert Testimony Worksites: City of Williamsport fire department; City of Williamsport fire department, Williamsport…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Increased Risk of Gastric Cancer in Asbestos-Exposed Workers: A Retrospective Cohort Study Based on Taiwan Cancer Registry 1980-2015
…the period 1980-2015. Standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) for cancer were computed for the whole cohort using reference rates of the general population, and also reference labor population. Compared with the general population, SIR of the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Talc exposure and risk of stomach cancer: Systematic review and meta-analysis of occupational cohort studies
…Across all forms of talc, the pooled relative risk of stomach cancer, compared with the general population, was 1.21 (95% CI 1.03 to 1.42). For talc not containing asbestiform fibers the figure was…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Environmental and ecological factors of stomach cancer incidence and mortality: a systematic review study on ecological studies
…keepers exposed to asbestos in drinking water. The review reported that this study found a positive correlation between ingested asbestos and gastrointestinal cancer in general and stomach cancer specifically. The review gave no figures for it…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Occupation and risk of stomach cancer in Poland
…between 1994 and 1996. Controls (n = 479) were randomly selected from the general population in Warsaw. Only a few occupations and industries were associated with significantly increased risks of stomach cancer. The most suggestive finding…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of New York · February 14, 2011 · in the opinion
Garner v. Dii Industries, LLC (2011)
…few years later, mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer known to cause only one in ten thousand deaths in the general population, was linked to either the mining or industrial use of asbestos.... The link between…
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Disease
Asbestos and Stomach Cancer
…the United States, there's no routine screening test for stomach cancer the way the colonoscopy screens for colon cancer; the disease is uncommon enough here that no general screening program is recommended. Instead, it's…
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Blog · 2025
Reminder: Asbestos and Digestive Cancers
…body, and therefore, an individual is at a higher risk than the general population of developing cancers related to exposure. What If Exposure Was Never Officially Recognized? Many people were exposed to asbestos without realizing it…