Epidemiology of mesothelioma in Israel

C, Lemesch; Steinitz, R.; Wassermann, Michael

doi:10.1016/0013-9351(76)90034-7

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“…Our data reveal a higher percentage of female patients in the collective without elevated pulmonary asbestos burdens. This seems to be a tendency similar to the results of Lemesch [61] who found percentages of female/ male patients of 42 to 58% in collectives without occupational asbestos exposure.…”

Section: Primary Tumour Sitesupporting

confidence: 84%

Malignant mesothelioma - German mesothelioma register 1987-1999

Neumann

Günther

Müller

et al. 2001

International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health

114

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Section: Primary Tumour Sitesupporting

confidence: 84%

Malignant mesothelioma - German mesothelioma register 1987-1999

Neumann

Günther

Müller

et al. 2001

International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health

114

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“…Because of the crude method of categorizing stage of disease, the lack of specificity on treatment modalities in the SEER data, and the inclusion of all cases in the population covered by SEER, the results of the current study may not be directly comparable to results from specialized cancer research centers (Antman et al, 1980;Brenner et al, 1982;Chahinian et al, 1982;DeLaria et al, 1978;Jett and Eagan, 1982;Lederman et al, 1987;Lerner et al, 1983;Markman et al, 1986;Vogelzang et al, 1984;Wanebo et al, 1976;Yap et al, 1978). In addition, lifestyle, ethnicity and possibly treatment may differ from those prevailing in other countries (Butchart et al, 1976;Elmes, 1973;Lemesch et al, 1976). In particular, the SEER data set includes patients who may not have been eligible for treatment because of poor performance status, and includes all sites of disease.…”

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confidence: 77%

“…Previous studies of survival following mesothelioma have been limited by relatively small numbers of patients in case series (Antman et al, 1980;Brenner et al, 1982;Butchart et al, 1976;Chahinian et al, 1982;DeLaria et al, 1978;Elmes, 1973;Jett and Eagan, 1982;Lederman et al, 1987;Lemesch et al, 1976;Lerner et al, 1983;Markman et al, 1986;Vogelzang et al, 1984;Wanebo et al, 1976;Yap et al, 1978). Although current treatment regimens are somewhat limited in their efficacy (Lerner et al, 1983), most studies demonstrate increased survival with treatment.…”

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Survival patterns for malignant mesothelioma: The seer experience

Spirtas

Connelly

Tucker

1988

Intl Journal of Cancer

115

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Statistical analyses of 1,475 histologically confirmed cases of malignant mesothelioma ascertained through the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program of the National Cancer Institute for the years 1973-1984 showed age at diagnosis, sex, stage of disease, type of treatment, and geographic area of residence to be important predictors of patient survival, although type of treatment may be confounded with prognostic factors (patients selected for surgical treatment tended to have better performance status than other patients). Women below the age of 50 had an unusually long survival, even after adjustment for the effects of other variables in the model. A relatively large proportion of female cases had site of disease designated as peritoneum, but site was not a significant prognostic factor. These results suggest that age, gender and stage of disease should be carefully considered in designing and analyzing clinical trials for persons with mesothelioma. Survival was shorter in the 4 SEER registries which had shipbuilding as a major industry than in the others with less potential asbestos exposure, offering weak support for the hypothesis that asbestos-exposed cases of mesothelioma have worse survival experience than other cases.

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“…The mineral BChrysotile^was found in agricultural soils, as well as in almost each of the simples taken in Haifa's open patches. In Israel, there are no large lodes of asbestos, and no asbestos mining has taken place, but asbestos-cement products are very common (Tulchinsky et al 1999;Le et al 2011;Lemesch et al 1976). …”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Spectroscopy as a Diagnostic Tool for Urban Soil

Kopel

Brook

Wittenberg

et al. 2015

Water Air Soil Pollut

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The soils found in urban remnant patches may be considered anthropogenic inner urban soils-soils within the administrative boundaries of a municipalities influenced by activities adding artefacts into the soils. Such activities include housing, trading, traffic, production, and disposing. The objective of this study is to determine the scope to which field spectroscopy methods can be used to extend the knowledge of urban soils features and components. The spectroscopy techniques are used broadly for determining specific components or for differentiating between known ones. Moreover, this technique is able to determine low concentration in various phases and to trace hazardous material, and most studies are keen on quantification of those hazardous. In this paper, a top-down analysis for detecting the presence of minerals, organic matter, and pollutants in mixed soil samples is developed and presented. The developed method applies spectral activity (SA) detection in a structured hierarchical approach to quickly and, more importantly, accurately identify dominant spectral features. The developed method is adopted by multiple in-production tools including continuum removal normalization, guided by polynomial generalization, and spectral-likelihood algorithms: orthogonal subspace projection (OSP) and iterative spectral mixture analysis (ISMA).

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Epidemiology of mesothelioma in Israel

Cited by 17 publications

References 11 publications

Malignant mesothelioma - German mesothelioma register 1987-1999

Malignant mesothelioma - German mesothelioma register 1987-1999

Survival patterns for malignant mesothelioma: The seer experience

Spectroscopy as a Diagnostic Tool for Urban Soil

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