8 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Workplace exposures and oesophageal cancer
…between 1979 and 1985. It compared 99 men with oesophageal cancer (63 with squamous cell carcinoma) with 1,066 controls: 533 men from the general population and 533 men with other cancers. Chemists and industrial hygienists…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Diet and other risk factors for laryngeal cancer in Shanghai, China
…box) in urban Shanghai, China. The authors interviewed 201 people newly diagnosed during 1988-1990 (177 men, 24 women) and 414 residents randomly selected from the general population (269 men, 145 women). Interviews covered smoking, drinking…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Meta-Analysis of the Association between Asbestos Exposure and Esophageal Cancer
…ranges below are also 95% intervals). The authors described this as exposed participants being 1.28 times more likely to die from esophageal cancer than the general population. The pooled SMR was significantly raised for chrysotile…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Occupational exposures to asbestos, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and solvents, and cancers of the oral cavity and pharynx: a quantitative literature review
…risk. On the other hand, no association was found with exposure to solvents in general (meta-RR 0.98; 95% CI 0.77-1.23) but the strong heterogeneity between studies suggested differences in exposures. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Dysphagia due to mesothelioma infiltrating the oesophagus: palliative treatment
…found a tumour completely blocking it. A guide wire could not be passed through the stricture, so a tube was placed in the oesophagus under general anaesthetic via a gastrotomy. Afterwards she improved quickly, went home…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Occupational exposure and laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancer risk in central and eastern Europe
…For laryngeal cancer, the odds ratio for ever exposure to asbestos in general was 0.86 (95% CI 0.51 to 1.45), and for chrysotile asbestos it was 0.78 (0.44 to 1.40…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1975
Letter: Asbestos exposure and cancer of the larynx
…prospective study of 4,000 factory workers with presumed exposure found two cases after 41 years, against a general population incidence of 1/50,000. One of the two had only one month of severe exposure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Mortality studies of machining fluid exposure in the automobile industry. III: A case-control study of larynx cancer
…This is the first study, however, to distinguish straight mineral oils from other types of MF. Based on these findings, a general reduction in concentrations of straight mineral oil particulate in occupational environments would be prudent.