11 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1968
Asbestos exposure, smoking, and neoplasia
The authors followed 370 men from two asbestos insulation workers' union locals in New York and Newark, New Jersey, who were alive on January 1, 1963, through April 30, 1967. All had first been exposed to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Mortality experience of insulation workers in the United States and Canada, 1943--1976
…New Jersey union locals on January 1, 1943, followed to December 31, 1976, plus 833 men who joined these locals in 1943-1962. The other comprised all 17,800 members of the insulation workers' union in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1964
Asbestos exposure and neoplasia
This study followed 632 men who were members of two asbestos insulation workers' union locals, in New York and in Newark, New Jersey, as of 1942. It traced their deaths from January 1, 1943, through December…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
The occurrence of asbestosis among insulation workers in the United States
The authors surveyed the 1,522 men who belonged to the New York (Local 12) and New Jersey (Local 32) insulation workers' union locals at any time from 1942 to 1962. Of the 1,258 still…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
Mortality of brain tumors among asbestos insulation workers in the United States and Canada
This prospective cohort study followed 17,800 men on the rolls of the asbestos insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada on January 1, 1967, recording deaths through December 31, 1979. The men mainly…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Relation Of Cigarette Smoking To Risk Of Death Of Asbestos-Associated Disease Among Insulation Workers In The United States
…Selikoff followed two groups of asbestos insulation workers to examine smoking and asbestos-associated deaths. Among 370 New York-area union members followed 1963 to 1971, 41 of 283 regular cigarette smokers died of lung cancer…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Cancer Risk Of Insulation Workers In The United States
…insulation materials. The groups were 370 surviving members of New York-New Jersey insulation workers' union locals, 17,800 members of the insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada on 1 January 1967, and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Neoplasia among insulation workers in the United States with special reference to intra-abdominal neoplasia
…an extension of the authors' earlier report, followed members of New York Local 12 and Newark Local 32 of the insulation workers' union. The authors described the men as having had very light and intermittent exposure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Classics in Oncology: Asbestos exposure and neoplasia
…article reprints a 1964 JAMA paper. The authors studied 632 insulation workers in the New York and Newark, New Jersey, asbestos workers' union locals at the end of 1942. From January 1, 1943, through December 31…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1964
Mesothelioma in Relation to Asbestos in the United States
…Third, among 307 deaths from 1943 to August 1964 among members of New York Local 12 and Newark, New Jersey Local 32 of the insulation workers' union, 10 deaths were from mesothelioma (4 pleural, 6 peritoneal…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Asbestos exposure, cigarette smoking and death rates
…effects of cigarette smoking and occupational asbestos exposure on death rates. Members of the insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada answered smoking questionnaires in 1966, and 17,800 men alive on January 1…