Cohort Profile: The Golestan Cohort Study--a prospective study of oesophageal cancer in northern Iran
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Cohort Profile: The Golestan Cohort Study--a prospective study of oesophageal cancer in northern Iran.
The earliest reports of high incidence of oesophageal cancer (OC) in the northern parts of Iran date back to the early 1970s. A population-based cancer registry was established in 1969 as a joint effort between Tehran University and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). This registry confirmed the high incidence of OC in the eastern portion of the Caspian Sea littoral, in the ...
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The earliest reports of high incidence of oesophageal cancer (OC) in the northern parts of Iran date back to the early 1970s. A population-based cancer registry was established in 1969 as a joint effort between Tehran University and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). This registry confirmed the high incidence of OC in the eastern portion of the Caspian Sea littoral, in the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0300-5771,1464-3685
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyp161