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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2001 93(2):86-88; doi:10.1093/jnci/93.2.86
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 93, No. 2, 86-88, January 17, 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press

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New Chapter Opens In Iranian Research Story

Bob Kuska

Parvian Ghadirian had been in London studying for his Ph.D. when the Islamic Revolution erupted in February of 1979. Ghadirian said he knew that he had to return to Iran. He said he had to view the remains of the Westernized cancer registry that he operated in the small northern Iranian city of Babol.



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  		Dr. Parviz Ghadirian

 
Ghadirian, now director of the Epidemiology Research Unit at the Research Center of the University of Montreal, remembered that when he arrived in Babol, his worst suspicions were confirmed. "I went back about 6 months after the revolution, and they had completely stopped the cancer registry," he said.

Though Ghadirian said he eventually left Iran with most of the registry data, the loss of the Babol facility symbolized the end of a decade-long quest to explain the extremely high rate of esophageal cancer in areas of northern Iran. Or, as some Western scientists . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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