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Industrial Health 2003, 41 , 231–235 *To whom correspondence should be addressed. Original Article Mortality due to Silico-Tuberculosis and Lung Cancer Among 200 Whetstone Cutters Suteo OGAWA, Hiroto IMAI and Masayuki IKEDA* Kyoto Industrial Health Association, 67 Nishinokyo-Kitatsuboicho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-8472, Japan Received January 10, 2003 and accepted March 5, 2003 Abstract: The objective of the present study was to examine if the mortality due to tuberculosis and cancer in the lungs was elevated in a cohort of 200 male whetstone cutters. 1955–1995 death certificate- based mortality data on the cohort were available, and the data were reviewed in the present study for mortality due to the two diseases to calculate standardized mortality ratios (SMR) in reference to the health statistics of Kyoto prefecture, where the cohort lived. Among the 200 cohort members, ...

CIK 8852 CENTER FOR CONTINUING EDUCA TION 986800 Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, NE 68198-6800 NONPROFIT ORG. U.S. POST AGE P A I D OMAHA, NE PERMIT NO. 454 FALL MIDWEST LUNG CANCER CONFERENCE FALL MIDWEST LUNG CANCER CONFERENCE September 15-16, 2006 Omaha Marriott Hotel 10220 Regency Circle Omaha, Nebraska FRIDAY, September 15, 2006 7:30 a.m. R EGISTRATION AND C ONTINENTAL B REAKFAST 8:00 a.m. W ELCOME /I NTRODUCTIONS Rudy P. Lackner, MD 8:10 a.m. P ATHOLOGY OF L UNG C ANCER William W. West, MD 8:50 a.m. L UNG C ANCER S CREENING ...

MSNBC.com Women smokers face twice the lung cancer risk But females are less likely to die from the disease, study finds Reuters Updated: 4:56 p.m. PT July 11, 2006 CHICAGO - Cigarette-smoking women run twice the risk of lung cancer as men who smoke but are far less likely to die from the disease than males, according to a study published Tuesday. Why women are more susceptible to the cancer -causing agents in cigarette smoke is not clear, the report said, but the findings indicate that women who smoke should be screened sooner and targeted with anti-smoking messages earlier. The conclusions, from researchers at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City, were based on 7,498 women and 9,427 men, at least 40 years of age and with a history of cigarette smoking, who were checked for lung cancer between 1993 and 2005. When ...

L UNG AND B REAST C ANCER D EATHS A MONG A RIZONA F EMALES , 1970-1999 Tim Flood, MD, Medical Director, and Amy C. Stoll, MS, Epidemiologist Bureau of Public Health Statistics, Arizona Department of Health Services SUMMARY For the past 17 years, the number of women dying of lung cancer in Arizona has surpassed the number dying of breast cancer . In 1999, deaths from lung cancer for Arizona women totaled 1102 and deaths from breast cancer totaled 657. There was a steady increase in female lung cancer death rates between 1970 to 1987, and then the rate stabilized at around 29 deaths per 100,000 women for the past 12 years (1988 to 1999). Breast cancer mortality rates have decreased since 1970, with an impressive 17% decline noted over the ...

DNA methylation profiling in lung cancer using universal bead arrays Marina Bibikova 1 ,Zhenwu Lin 2 , Lixin Zhou 1 ,Eugene Chudin 1 , Eliza Wickham 1 , Dennis Doucet 1 , Neal Thomas 2 , Yunhua Wang 2 ,Ekkehard Vollmer 3 , Torsten Goldmann 3 , Carola Seifart 4 , David L. Barker 1 , Mark S. Chee 1 , Joanna Floros 2 and Jian-Bing Fan 1 1 Illumina, Inc., 9885 Towne Centre Drive, San Diego, CA 92121; 2 ThePennsylvania State University College of Medicine, 500 University Drive, Hershey, PA 17033; 3 Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Research Center Borstel, Parkallee, 23845 Borstel, Germany; 4 Department of Internal ...

Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma During Prospective Surveillance of 1249 Asbestos Insulation Workers, 1963-1974* Irving J. Selikoff Environmental Sciences Laboratory Mount Sinai School of Medicine The City University of New York New York, New York 10029 INTRODUCTION In 1963, it was found that a large group of asbestos insulation workers in the New York metropolitan area had experienced unusual mortality during 1943-1962. 1 Six hundred and thirty-two men had been on the union's rolls on January 1, 1943. By December 31, 1962, 262 men had died, nine before reaching 20 years on the job. Of those who died after 20 years from first employment, lung cancer was found in marked excess; 6.02 such deaths had been expected, and 42 occurred. In addition, there were several deaths due to pleural or peritoneal mesothelioma and a modest increase in deaths due to, gastrointestinal ...

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Original papers British Journal of General Practice, August 2004 589 Lung cancer patients’ perceptions of access to financial benefits: a qualitative study Alison Chapple, Sue Ziebland, Ann McPherson and Nick Summerton Introduction R ECENTLY, terminal care and ways of planning for a ‘good death’ have been much debated, 1 but relatively little is known about the last few months of life from the patients’ perspective. 2 Among patients’ concerns is the fear that they will be a financial burden to their family. 3,4 Financial worries may cause stress and lead to psychological and emotional problems. 5 However, patients’ financial needs are often forgotten and it is not common practice for health professionals to consider economic hardship in families. 6 Research has found that ...