7 results for “General Electric”
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Disease
Asbestos and Lung Cancer
…household exposure. That doesn't mean low exposure is safe; it means the risk accumulates. The table below is a general guide to _relative_ likelihood by exposure scenario. It's not a safety cutoff. Risk accumulates…
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Asbestos and Colon Cancer
…53). Asbestos insulation workers, one of the most heavily exposed trades of all, had about 59% higher risk than expected from general-population rates (1.59; 1.14 to 2.23), the highest of any group…
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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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Asbestos, Talc, and Ovarian Cancer
…Ovarian cancer is uncommon, with a lifetime risk of roughly 1 in 90 for women in general, so even a relative increase of this size is a modest absolute one. How asbestos is thought to reach…
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Asbestos and Throat and Esophageal Cancer
…it documents that a person's exposure was substantial. For the larynx, where the general science is already settled, asbestosis does a slightly different job, showing that you personally were exposed enough for asbestos to be…
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Disease
What is asbestosis
…is actually reached, because it's more concrete than it sounds. The B-reader doesn't grade from memory or general impression. The ILO system supplies a set of official standard reference films, each one already…
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Pleural Plaques and Pleural Thickening
…the medical record of your exposure is already there. How you handle an early claim matters, though: signing a general release, or the date a condition was diagnosed, can affect a later claim and its deadlines…