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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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Mortality and cancer in relation to ABO blood group phenotypes in the Golestan Cohort Study
Arash Etemadi,Farin Kamangar,Farhad Islami,Farhad Islami,Hossein Poustchi,Akram Pourshams,Paul Brennan,Paolo Boffetta,Reza Malekzadeh,Sanford M. Dawsey,Christian C. Abnet,Ashkan Emadi +11 more
TL;DR: Non-O blood groups have an increased mortality, particularly due to cardiovascular diseases, which may be due to the effect of blood group alleles on blood biochemistry or their effect on von Willebrand factor and factor VIII levels.
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Opium use and subsequent incidence of cancer: results from the Golestan Cohort Study.
Mahdi Sheikh,Ramin Shakeri,Hossein Poustchi,Akram Pourshams,Arash Etemadi,Farhad Islami,Masoud Khoshnia,Abdolsamad Gharavi,Abdolsamad Gharavi,Gholamreza Roshandel,Gholamreza Roshandel,Hooman Khademi,Sadaf G. Sepanlou,Maryam Hashemian,Abdolreza Fazel,Mahdi Zahedi,Behnoush Abedi-Ardekani,Paolo Boffetta,Sanford M. Dawsey,Paul D.P. Pharoah,Masoud Sotoudeh,Neal D. Freedman,Christian C. Abnet,Nicholas E. Day,Paul Brennan,Farin Kamangar,Reza Malekzadeh +26 more
TL;DR: Opium users have a significantly higher risk of developing cancers in different organs of the respiratory, digestive, and urinary systems and the CNS.
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Inequalities in Premature Death From Colorectal Cancer by State
Ahmedin Jemal,Rebecca L. Siegel,Jiemin Ma,Farhad Islami,Carol DeSantis,Ann Goding Sauer,Edgar P. Simard,Elizabeth Ward +7 more
TL;DR: The majority of premature deaths from CRC in southern states and half these deaths nationwide are due to racial/ethnic, socioeconomic, and geographic inequalities.
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Opium use, cigarette smoking, and alcohol consumption in relation to pancreatic cancer.
Ramin Shakeri,Farin Kamangar,Mehdi Mohamadnejad,Reza Tabrizi,Farhad Zamani,Ashraf Mohamadkhani,Sepideh Nikfam,Arash Nikmanesh,Masoud Sotoudeh,Rasoul Sotoudehmanesh,Bijan Shahbazkhani,Mohammad R. Ostovaneh,Farhad Islami,Hossein Poustchi,Paolo Boffetta,Reza Malekzadeh,Akram Pourshams +16 more
TL;DR: In this study, opium use and alcohol consumption were associated with an increased risk of pancreatic cancer, whereas cigarette smoking was not.
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Coeliac disease in autoimmune liver disease: A cross-sectional study and a systematic review
Foroozandeh Mirzaagha,Sepideh Hagh Azali,Farhad Islami,Farhad Islami,Farhad Zamani,Elias Khalilipour,Morteza Khatibian,Reza Malekzadeh +7 more
TL;DR: Although the magnitude of benefit from a gluten-free diet in reversing autoimmune liver disease in patients with coeliac disease is controversial, it may reduce the risk of further complications of coeliat disease.