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. 2010 Feb;39(1):52-9.
doi: 10.1093/ije/dyp161. Epub 2009 Mar 30.

Cohort Profile: The Golestan Cohort Study--a prospective study of oesophageal cancer in northern Iran

Akram Pourshams  1 , Hooman Khademi, Akbar Fazeltabar Malekshah, Farhad Islami, Mehdi Nouraei, Ali Reza Sadjadi, Elham Jafari, Nasser Rakhshani, Rasool Salahi, Shahryar Semnani, Farin Kamangar, Christian C Abnet, Bruce Ponder, Nick Day, Sanford M Dawsey, Paolo Boffetta, Reza Malekzadeh
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Cohort Profile: The Golestan Cohort Study--a prospective study of oesophageal cancer in northern Iran

Akram Pourshams et al. Int J Epidemiol. 2010 Feb.
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Figure 1
Geographic location of Golestan province in northern Iran. The dashed area approximately corresponds to the GCS field
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