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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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Abstract P1-06-01: Associations of historic and contemporary “redlining” with breast cancer stage at diagnosis
TL;DR: Wiese et al. as discussed by the authors examined the association between the historic HOLC-based "redlining" and contemporary mortgage lending bias and stage of breast cancer at diagnosis among women aged 18 years and older in New Jersey diagnosed with first primary invasive breast cancer in 2010-2015 (N= 32,939).
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Prevalence of alcohol dehydrogenase 1B and aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 genotypes in Kashmir, an Asian high-risk region of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
Beenish Iqbal,Idrees Ayoub Shah,Gulzar Ahmad Bhat,Mansha Muzaffar,Najma Nissa,Sumaiya Nabi,Syed Tanveer Iqbal,Mohd Maqbool Lone,Farhad Islami,Paolo Boffetta,Nazir Ahmad Dar +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the distribution of ADH1B (p.His48Arg; rs1229984) and ALDH2(p.Glu504Lys; rs671) genotypes and investigate the association of these variants with the ESCC risk in Kashmir, India, a region where ESCC is comparatively more prevalent.
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Association of Smoking Initiation and Cessation Across the Life Course and Cancer Mortality: Prospective Study of 410 000 US Adults.
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The Role of Individual-Level Factors in Rural Mortality Disparities
Erika Rees-Punia,Emily Deubler,Alpa V. Patel,W. Ryan Diver,James M. Hodge,Farhad Islami,Minjee Lee,Marjorie L. McCullough,Lauren R. Teras +8 more
TL;DR: The role of individual-level demographics and health behaviors on the association between rural residence and the risk of mortality was explored in this paper , where Cox proportional hazards regression was used to estimate hazard ratios and 95% CIs for mortality associated with Rural-Urban Commuting Area groups.
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Racial and ethnic disparities in survival among persons with subsequent primary cancer.
TL;DR: In this paper , cause-specific proportional hazards models were used to estimate HR (hazard ratio), overall and stratified by SPC types, comparing the risk of cancer or cardiovascular death in Hispanic, non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander (API), or non- Hispanic Black (Black) persons to that in white persons.