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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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Worldwide Burden of and Trends in Mortality From Gallbladder and Other Biliary Tract Cancers.
TL;DR: An analysis of the World Health Organization’s Cancer Mortality Database found that rates of death from gallbladder and other biliary tract cancers are decreasing in most countries but increasing in some high‐income countries following decades of decline.
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Multimorbidity: Epidemiology and Risk Factors in the Golestan Cohort Study, Iran: A Cross-Sectional Analysis.
Batoul Ahmadi,Masoomeh Alimohammadian,Mehdi Yaseri,Azam Majidi,Majid Boreiri,Farhad Islami,Hossein Poustchi,Mohammad H. Derakhshan,Akabar Feizesani,Akram Pourshams,Christian C. Abnet,P Brennan,Sanford M. Dawsey,Farin Kamangar,Paolo Boffetta,Alireza Sadjadi,Reza Malekzadeh +16 more
TL;DR: Policies aiming at controlling multimorbidity will require a multidimensional approach to reduce modifiable risk factors in the younger population in developing countries alongside adopting efficient strategies to improve life quality in the older population.
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Extremely high Tp53 mutation load in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in Golestan Province, Iran
Behnoush Abedi-Ardekani,Farin Kamangar,Masoud Sotoudeh,Stephanie Villar,Farhad Islami,Karim Aghcheli,Dariush Nasrollahzadeh,Noushin Taghavi,Sanford M. Dawsey,Christian C. Abnet,Stephen M. Hewitt,Saman Fahimi,Farrokh Saidi,Paul Brennan,Paolo Boffetta,Reza Malekzadeh,Pierre Hainaut +16 more
TL;DR: ESCC tumors in people from Golestan Province show the highest rate of TP53 mutations ever reported in any cancer anywhere, which is highly suggestive of a causative role for multiple environmental carcinogens, including PAHs.
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Proportion of Cancer Cases Attributable to Excess Body Weight by US State, 2011-2015
TL;DR: The proportion of cancers attributable to EBW varies among states, but EBW accounts for at least 1 in 17 of all incident cancers in each state, and broad implementation of known community- and individual-level interventions is needed.
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Household Fuel Use and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality: Golestan Cohort Study.
Sumeet S. Mitter,Rajesh Vedanthan,Farhad Islami,Akram Pourshams,Hooman Khademi,Farin Kamangar,Christian C. Abnet,Sanford M. Dawsey,Paul D. Pharoah,Paul Brennan,Valentin Fuster,Paolo Boffetta,Reza Malekzadeh +12 more
TL;DR: Household exposure to high-pollution fuels was associated with increased risk for all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality, and replicating these results worldwide would support efforts to reduce such exposures.