3 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Occupational burden of asbestos-related cancer in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico
…Health Organization. Estimates of how many workers in each economic sector were exposed to asbestos were not available for the countries studied, so the authors used European Union figures from 1990 to 1993. For mesothelioma, the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Predictions of mortality from pleural mesothelioma in Italy: a model based on asbestos consumption figures supports results from age-period-cohort models
Italy was the second main asbestos producer in Europe, after the Soviet Union, until the end of the 1980s, and raw asbestos was imported on a large scale until 1992. The Italian pattern of asbestos consumption…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2025
Engaging Social Stakeholders in National Asbestos Research for Public Health: An Italian Experience
…associations of former asbestos-exposed workers and of patients and their families, environmental non-governmental organisations, and national trade unions. Researchers presented project topics, such as mesothelioma surveillance and ovarian cancer attributable to asbestos in Lombardy…