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Malignant tumor of pleura

Known as: Cancer of Pleura, pleura cancer, Malignant neoplasm of pleura, unspecified 
A primary or metastatic malignant neoplasm affecting the pleura. A representative example of primary malignant pleural neoplasm is the malignant… 
National Institutes of Health

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ChestNeckNeoplastic CellPleura

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Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

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Pleural Neoplasms

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Highly Cited
2015
Highly Cited
2015
Survival patterns in lung and pleural cancer in Europe 1999-2007: Results from the EUROCARE-5 study.
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Lung cancer mortality and fibre exposures among North Carolina asbestos textile workers
Objective: To describe mortality among workers exposed to chrysotile asbestos and evaluate the relationship between lung cancer… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Cancer Mortality and Incidence of Mesothelioma in a Cohort of Wives of Asbestos Workers in Casale Monferrato, Italy
Background Family members of asbestos workers are at increased risk of malignant mesothelioma (MM). Although the hazard is… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Predictions of mortality from pleural mesothelioma in Italy: A model based on asbestos consumption figures supports results from age‐period‐cohort models
Italy was the second main asbestos producer in Europe, after the Soviet Union, until the end of the 1980s, and raw asbestos was… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Nonoccupational exposure to chrysotile asbestos and the risk of lung cancer.
BACKGROUND Heavy industrial exposure to asbestos causes lung cancer and mesothelioma, but it remains unknown whether much lower… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Cancer mortality in relation to monitoring for radionuclide exposure in three UK nuclear industry workforces.
Cancer mortality in 40,761 employees of three UK nuclear industry facilities who had been monitored for external radiation… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Cancer mortality among workers in the German rubber industry: 1981-91.
OBJECTIVES: To determine the cancer specific mortality of active and retired workers of the German rubber industry with emphasis… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Cancer mortality and morbidity among plutonium workers at the Sellafield plant of British Nuclear Fuels
SummaryThe mortality of all 14 319 workers employed at the Sellafield plant of British Nuclear Fuels between 1947 and 1975 was… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Mortality among workers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Evidence of radiation effects in follow-up through 1984.
White men hired at the Oak Ridge (Tenn) National Laboratory between 1943 and 1972 were followed up for vital status through 1984… 
Highly Cited
1940
Highly Cited
1940
HYALURONIC ACID IN THE PLEURAL FLUID ASSOCIATED WITH A MALIGNANT TUMOR INVOLVING THE PLEURA AND PERITONEUM
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