17 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Cancer and noncancer mortality among aluminum smelting workers in Badin, North Carolina
…study responds to concerns of a group of former aluminum workers. The results, while imprecise, suggest excess respiratory and bladder cancers among pot room workers in a contemporary cohort of union employees at a US smelter.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Non-Malignant Respiratory Illnesses in Association with Occupational Exposure to Asbestos and Other Insulating Materials: Findings from the Alberta Insulator Cohort
This cross-sectional study looked at 990 union insulators in Edmonton, Alberta, screened in a voluntary workplace health program from 2011 to 2017. Most (88%) were men, with an average age of 45. Workers answered questionnaires…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Single-center study to determine the safety and efficacy of CT-707 in Chinese patients with advanced anaplastic lymphoma kinase-rearranged non-small-cell lung cancer
This single-center, open-label phase I trial was run at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, China. It tested CT-707, an experimental oral ALK-targeting drug, in adults with advanced ALK-rearranged cancers. Thirteen patients…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
Exposure to insulating materials and risk of coronary artery diseases: a cross-sectional study
…CAD among insulators. In this cross-sectional study, we recruited 643 adults (≥18 years), full-time insulators from the Local 110 Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers Union in Edmonton, Alberta. We obtained demographic information…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Orphan Designation and Cisplatin/Hyaluronan Complex in an Intracavitary Film for Malignant Mesothelioma
…patients or animals were tested in it. It described the European Union orphan-medicine designation procedure for a film made of sodium hyaluronate (hyaluronan) loaded with the cancer drug cisplatin. The film is meant to be…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Diffuse malignant peritoneal mesothelioma: A review
…work on diffuse malignant peritoneal mesothelioma (DMPM), a cancer of the lining of the abdomen. The three authors were based at China-Japan Union Hospital in Changchun, China. It reported no new patient data and did…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2026
Extensive Bilateral Pleural Plaques: A Cadaveric Case Study
…male body donor dissected during preclinical medical education at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He had worked for many years as a steam fitter in Union, New Jersey, and died of a glioblastoma…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2024
Occupational exposure to chrysotile in an asbestos cement factory in Kyrgyzstan
…ml) for loading, 0.91 ff/ml for mixing and 4.7 ff/ml for sheet cutting. The authors reported constant non-compliance with the European Union limit, formerly 0.1 ff/ml, being lowered to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2026
Commentary on Notification and Recordkeeping of Occupational Mesothelioma in India
…cancer was notified in one state, in a country of 28 states and 8 union territories (mesothelioma being listed under occupational cancer and not a separate entry under the factories law). This is in sharp contrast…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2025
Examining the Environmental Ramifications of Asbestos Fiber Movement Through the Water-Soil Continuum: A Review
…has been challenged by reports of asbestos in deep underground aquifers. They also noted that European Union rules set no limit for asbestos in drinking water, that standardized methods for measuring asbestos in water and soil…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Epidemiology of mesothelioma in the 21st century in Europe and the United States, 40 years after restricted/banned asbestos use
…6 kg in the US. By 2007, US consumption was 0.003 kg per person and most European Union countries were at or near zero, while Kazakhstan remained at 7.0 kg. For 2008 to 2012…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Burden of Lung Cancer Attributable to Occupational Carcinogens from 1990 to 2019 and Projections until 2044 in China
…of deaths in 2044 was 111,195 higher than in 1990, mainly because of population aging. The authors concluded the absolute burden will keep rising. They noted the exposure data came mainly from European Union countries.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Efficacy of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Rare Tumours: A Systematic Review
Rare cancers, as defined by the European Union, occur in fewer than 15 out of 100,000 people each year. The International Rare Cancer Consortium defines rare cancer incidence as less than six per 100,000…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
The Evolving Landscape of the Molecular Epidemiology of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
…shown benefit in other human tumors have thus far failed in MPM. Overall, MPM has been listed as orphan disease by the European Union. However, molecular high-throughput profiling is currently unveiling novel biomarkers and actionable…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2025
Asbestos and benign pleural diseases: a narrative review
…round atelectasis, pleural plaques, diffuse pleural thickening and non-malignant asbestos pleural effusion. Although asbestos is banned in most developed countries (in the European Union, since 2002), it is still used in developing countries. Despite these…
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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…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
Public health advocacy strategies to influence policy agendas: lessons from a narrative review of success in trade policy
…and a coalition of asbestos victims, health NGOs, trade unions and health experts. The review called this ban Canada's in one passage and Quebec's in another. The authors concluded that technical evidence is important…