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BMC Research Notes, 2018 Objective Pleural effusion (PE) is a common feature of malignant pleural mesothelioma. These effusions typically contain lymphocytes and malignant cells. We postulated that the PE would be a source of lymphocytes for analysis of tumor immune milieu.
Jonathan Chee +11 more
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Diagnostic limitations of lung fiber counts in asbestos-related diseases
The Journal of Scientific Practice and Integrity, 2023 # Background Lung dust fibre analyses have been used by some pathologists to estimate past asbestos exposure in the workplace and its related health risks.
Joachim Schneider +3 more
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Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2021 Pleural mesothelioma is a disease with a very poor prognosis. Here, we report a mesothelioma patient who survived for 5 years and a half. As a result of the autopsy, the tumor was diagnosed as a myxoid variant, which is internationally proposed as a ...
Keiichi Mizuhashi +2 more
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Environmental Health Perspectives, 1974 Talc deposits include asbestos minerals such as chrysotile and amphiboles that may be carried over into consumer products. Optical microscopy and x-ray diffraction analyses may not reveal their presence. Examples are given of electron microscopy procedures that permit detection and measurement.
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 Biodurability is one of the main determinants of asbestos hazardousness for human health. Very little is known about the actual persistence of asbestos in lungs and its clearance, nor about differences in this regard between the different mineralogical ...
Silvia D. Visonà +12 more
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Asbestos awareness among the residents of St. Kitts and Nevis: a cross-sectional study
Globalization and Health, 2022 Background High levels of public awareness regarding the hazards of asbestos, rights to health, and benefits of an asbestos-free country can increase advocacy and political commitment to a total ban on asbestos. We aimed to investigate asbestos awareness
Denrick Jeffers +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2021 Despite the use of large amounts of asbestos in the 1990s, few studies have been conducted in Korea on occupational and environmental asbestos exposure and lung cancer risk.
Da-An Huh +5 more
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Letter from Asian Ban Asbestos Network to Quebec Premier Jean Charest and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper [PDF]
, 2010 This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Asian Ban Asbestos Network
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Safety and Health at Work, 2013 This paper describes progress on formulating a national asbestos profile for the country of Vietnam. The Center of Asbestos Resource, Vietnam, formulated a National Profile on Asbestos-related Occupational Health, with due reference to the International ...
Van Hai Pham +7 more
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Current causes of mesothelioma: how has the asbestos ban changed the perspective?
Biomedical Papers, 2023 The association of mesothelioma, a lethal lung disease, with asbestos has led to an absolute ban on asbestos in at least 55 countries worldwide. The purpose of this paper is to review residual exposure to asbestos as well as other emerging causes of ...
Magdalena Janosikova +2 more
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