Improvement of esophageal cancer survival in Northeast Iran: A two-decade journey in a high-risk, low- resource region

• Saeed Nemati,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Cancer Research Center, Cancer Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Genomic Epidemiology Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC—WHO), Lyon, France

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• Farhad Islami,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Surveillance and Health Services Equity Research, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7357-5994

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• Farin Kamangar,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, School of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Hossein Poustchi,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Liver and Pancreatobiliary Diseases Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Gholamreza Roshandel,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Golestan Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5494-0722

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• Ramin Shakeri,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Digestive Oncology Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Allison Domingues,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Genomic Epidemiology Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC—WHO), Lyon, France

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• Masoud Khoshnia,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Golestan Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran

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• Abdolsamad Gharavi,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Golestan Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran

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• Paul Brennan,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Genomic Epidemiology Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC—WHO), Lyon, France

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• Christian C. Abnet,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Metabolic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Sanford M. Dawsey,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Metabolic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Paolo Boffetta,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Stony Brook Cancer Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Reza Malekzadeh ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sheikhm@iarc.who.int (MS); malek@tums.ac.ir (RM)

  Affiliations Golestan Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran, Digestive Diseases Research Center, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Mahdi Sheikh

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sheikhm@iarc.who.int (MS); malek@tums.ac.ir (RM)

  Affiliation Genomic Epidemiology Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC—WHO), Lyon, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3972-7824

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