53 results for “Owens-Corning Fiberglas”, page 1 of 3
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
A case-control study of malignant and non-malignant respiratory disease among employees of a fiberglass manufacturing facility. II. Exposure assessment
A case-control study of malignant and non-malignant respiratory disease among employees of the Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation's Newark, Ohio plant was undertaken. The aim was to determine the extent to which exposures to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1968
Health of Fibrous Glass Workers
This 1968 conference presentation, by the medical director of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., reviewed the health effects of fibrous glass. It is not about asbestos. The author summarized earlier animal, worker and skin studies, plus unpublished…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
Mortality from non-malignant respiratory disease in the fibreglass manufacturing industry
…influenza and pneumonia (NMRDxIP) among workers in a fibreglass wool manufacturing facility. A case-control study with cases and controls derived from deaths recorded from the Kansas City plant in the Owens Corning mortality surveillance system…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
The lung cancers: staging and response, CT, 18F-FDG PET/CT, MRI, DWI: review and new perspectives
This was a review, not an original study; it reported no new study results, and its patient images were illustrative examples. The authors reviewed how CT, 18F-FDG PET/CT and MRI are used to stage lung cancer and to judge response to treatment, in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Dual Screen for Efficacy and Toxicity Identifies HDAC Inhibitor with Distinctive Activity Spectrum for BAP1-Mutant Uveal Melanoma
This laboratory study did not involve asbestos or people with mesothelioma. It concerned uveal melanoma, an eye cancer, and the gene BAP1, which the authors note is also mutated in mesothelioma and other cancers. The authors looked for drugs that…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Asbestosis among electricians
This cross-sectional study examined 38 of 39 eligible union electricians who had worked on renovating a specific building in May 1985, when asbestos exposure was documented. Exact exposure values were unknown, so the authors used years worked as an…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1947
Dust And Its Effects On The Respiratory System
…in South Africa for the past thirty years. The Owens jet dust counter was described in three ways: low in efficiency for particles of 2 to 5 microns, needing careful calibration before routine control use in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Measurement of asbestos dust levels in British asbestos factories in the 1930s
…which treated the average dust level of spinners as a "dust datum." Those data came from 51 samples in eight factories, taken with an Owens Jet Counter, which could not tell asbestos fibers from other particles…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Saving the asbestos industry, 1960 to 2006
…million in sponsorship by 1999. Citing documents from a Texas court case, the article reported that Owens-Illinois made regular payments to Wagner from 1986, probably exceeding $300,000 in total. During this period Wagner's…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Identification of novel COX-2 / CYP19A1 axis involved in the mesothelioma pathogenesis opens new therapeutic opportunities
This was a laboratory study, not a study of asbestos-exposed people. The authors studied two enzymes in human malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) cell lines and tumor samples: COX-2, linked to inflammation, and aromatase (CYP19A1), which makes…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Loss of BRCA1-associated protein 1 (BAP1) expression is rare in non-small cell lung cancer
This laboratory study, by Vancouver pathologists, asked how often non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) loses a protein called BAP1. Loss of BAP1 on tissue staining helps pathologists diagnose malignant mesothelioma, so the authors wanted to know how…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1964
Diffuse Mesothelioma
This study examined 17 cases of diffuse mesothelioma, 16 of the pleura and one of the peritoneum, from the Merseyside area. Most cases came from the files of the Liverpool Cancer Control Organization and the Liverpool Regional Thoracic Surgery Unit…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1951
Carcinoma and asbestosis of the lung; report of a case
This article reports a single case. The patient, a 39-year-old man, had been a ship's steward for five years and before that had kept a greengrocery business for fifteen years. Twenty years earlier he had worked for twelve months in an asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Mesothelial tumors and exposure to asbestos dust
The author, a hospital pathologist in Liverpool, England, re-examined 30 cases of cancer of the chest or abdominal lining from Liverpool and the Merseyside area, covering ten years from 1953. All had at some point been suggested to be diffuse…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1964
Diffuse mesothelioma and exposure to asbestos dust in the Merseyside area
This 1964 report described 17 people with diffuse mesothelioma (16 pleural, one peritoneal) in Merseyside, England. Most cases came from Liverpool cancer and thoracic surgery records for 1955 to 1963. The author re-examined tissue, took work…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Dosimetry of inhaled elongate mineral particles in the respiratory tract: The impact of shape factor
This article was an overview of a computer model, the multi-path particle dosimetry (MPPD) model version 3.04, with example simulations of how elongate mineral particles (EMPs), a group that includes asbestos fibers, are breathed in and deposited in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
A survey of occupational cancer in the rubber and cablemaking industries: results of five-year analysis, 1967-71
Fox, A. J., Lindars, D. C., and Owen, R. (1974).British Journal of Industrial Medicine,31, 140-151. A survey of occupational cancer in the rubber and cablemaking industries: results of five-year analysis, 1967-71…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Pleural mesothelial cells stimulated by asbestos release chemotactic activity for neutrophils in vitro
This was a laboratory study of cells grown in dishes, not a study of people. The authors cultured pleural mesothelial cells (cells lining the chest cavity) from 16 rabbits and exposed them to crocidolite or chrysotile asbestos in serum-free medium.…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2025
Trends in Pleural Mesothelioma Incidence and Survival in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas in the United States
This was a retrospective study of US cancer registry data (SEER 18 registries, covering about 34% of the US population). It compared pleural mesothelioma in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties. It included 8519 patients aged 20 or older…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
The Pathology And Mineral Content Of Lungs In Cases Of Mesothelioma In The United Kingdom In 1976
This study examined people who died of mesothelioma in the United Kingdom in 1976. Pathologists and coroners were invited to notify a mesothelioma panel of these deaths; participating pathologists were asked to send tissue. The panel confirmed…