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Farhad Islami
Researcher at American Cancer Society
Publications - 245
Citations - 74220
Farhad Islami is an academic researcher from American Cancer Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 70, co-authored 223 publications receiving 52150 citations. Previous affiliations of Farhad Islami include Tehran University of Medical Sciences & Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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Opium use: an emerging risk factor for cancer?
TL;DR: Opium use was associated with an increased risk of cancers of the oesophagus, stomach, larynx, lung, and urinary bladder and the present evidence suggests that these associations are possibly causal.
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Alcohol consumption and prostate cancer risk: a meta-analysis of the dose-risk relation.
Matteo Rota,Lorenza Scotti,Federica Turati,Irene Tramacere,Farhad Islami,Rino Bellocco,Eva Negri,Giovanni Corrao,Paolo Boffetta,Carlo La Vecchia,Vincenzo Bagnardi +10 more
TL;DR: This comprehensive meta-analysis of epidemiological studies provided no evidence of a material association between alcohol drinking and prostate cancer, even at high doses.
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A Meta-analysis of Alcohol Drinking and Oral and Pharyngeal Cancers: Results from Subgroup Analyses
Federica Turati,Werner Garavello,Werner Garavello,Irene Tramacere,Claudio Pelucchi,Carlotta Galeone,Vincenzo Bagnardi,Vincenzo Bagnardi,Giovanni Corrao,Farhad Islami,Farhad Islami,Veronika Fedirko,Paolo Boffetta,C. La Vecchia,C. La Vecchia,Eva Negri +15 more
TL;DR: The association between alcohol and OPC is stronger in smokers than in non-smokers, and the alcohol-related RRs are similar with respect to sex, geographic area and type of alcoholic beverage.
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Diabetes Mellitus and Its Correlates in an Iranian Adult Population
Asieh Golozar,Hooman Khademi,Farin Kamangar,Farin Kamangar,Hossein Poutschi,Farhad Islami,Farhad Islami,Christian C. Abnet,Neal D. Freedman,Philip R. Taylor,Paul D.P. Pharoah,Paolo Boffetta,Paul Brennan,Sanford M. Dawsey,Reza Malekzadeh,Arash Etemadi +15 more
TL;DR: Obesity at all ages and extreme leanness in childhood increased diabetes prevalence, and being obese throughout life doubled DM prevalence in women (PR: 2.1; 95% CI: 1.8, 2.4).
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Variations of gastric corpus microbiota are associated with early esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and squamous dysplasia
Dariush Nasrollahzadeh,Reza Malekzadeh,Alexander Ploner,Ramin Shakeri,Masoud Sotoudeh,Saman Fahimi,Siavosh Nasseri-Moghaddam,Farin Kamangar,Christian C. Abnet,Björn Winckler,Farhad Islami,Paolo Boffetta,Paul Brennan,Sanford M. Dawsey,Weimin Ye +14 more
TL;DR: This study is the first to show that composition of gastric corpus mucosal microbiota differs in early ESCC and ESD from healthy esophagus, and this difference was observed between mid-esophagitis and healthy controls.