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April 30, 2009
Tracking cancer in Iraq
While the swine flu continues to rivet global attention, an SFU health sciences expert’s latest findings on another pandemic’s advancement are about to garner attention in the Middle East. Tim Takaro, a physician-scientist in environmental and occupational health, is the senior author of a paper to be published shortly in the American Journal of Public Health. The paper, Trends In Childhood Leukemia In Basra, Iraq, concludes that childhood leukemia rates since the 1991 Gulf War more than doubled in Basra Province in southern Iraq from 1993-2007. Takaro is now researching the causes.
The SFU researcher has also put together a review of studies that link U.S. Gulf War veterans’ exposures to various carcinogens such as benzene from petroleum products and pesticides during the conflicts. Takaro will present the review and talk about his soon-to-be-published paper at the First International Oncology Conference 2009 in Basra, May 3-11.
Tim Takaro, 778.782.7186, ttakaro@sfu.ca (email easiest May 3-11)
While the swine flu continues to rivet global attention, an SFU health sciences expert’s latest findings on another pandemic’s advancement are about to garner attention in the Middle East. Tim Takaro, a physician-scientist in environmental and occupational health, is the senior author of a paper to be published shortly in the American Journal of Public Health. The paper, Trends In Childhood Leukemia In Basra, Iraq, concludes that childhood leukemia rates since the 1991 Gulf War more than doubled in Basra Province in southern Iraq from 1993-2007. Takaro is now researching the causes.
The SFU researcher has also put together a review of studies that link U.S. Gulf War veterans’ exposures to various carcinogens such as benzene from petroleum products and pesticides during the conflicts. Takaro will present the review and talk about his soon-to-be-published paper at the First International Oncology Conference 2009 in Basra, May 3-11.
Tim Takaro, 778.782.7186, ttakaro@sfu.ca (email easiest May 3-11)