Education

1999 MD in Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
2007 PhD in Epidemiology, University of Tampere, Finland

Research field

Cancer epidemiology: Familial cancer, familial cancer risk assessment modeling, incidence, ascertainment bias in cancer registry, and subsequent cancers

Other chronic disease epidemiology: Epilepsy and cardiovascular diseases

Selected publications

Roudgari H, Hemminki K, Brandt A, Sundquist J, Fallah M. Prostate cancer risk assessment model (PCRAM): A scoring model based on Swedish Family-Cancer Database. J Med Genet 2012 (In Press; DOI: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2011-100290).

Fallah M, Kharazmi E, Sundquist J, Hemminki K. Non-endocrine cancers associated with benign and malignant parathyroid tumors. J Clin Endocrin Metabol 2011;96(7):E1108–14.

Fallah M, Kharazmi E, Thomsen H, Sundquist J, Hemminki K. Determinants of unfavorable presentation of primary cutaneous melanoma. J Am Acad Dermatol 2011;65(1):e5–6.

Fallah M, Kharazmi E, Sundquist J, Hemminki K. Higher risk of primary cancers after polycythemia vera and vice versa. Br J Haematol 2011;153(2):283–285.

Mousavi SM, Fallah M, Sundquist J, Hemminki K. Age and time dependent changes in cancer incidence among immigrants to Sweden: Colorectal, lung, breast and prostate cancers. Int J Cancer 2011 (In Press: DOI: 10.1002/ijc.27334).

Mousavi SM, Fallah M, Sundquist J, Hemminki K. Nervous system tumors in adult immigrants to Sweden by site and histology. Eur J Neurol 2011;18(5):766–71.

Finne P, Fallah M, Hakama M, Ciatto S, Hugosson J, de Koning H, Moss S, Nelen V, Auvinen A. Lead-time in the European Randomised Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer. Eur J Cancer 2010;46(17):3102–8.

Fallah M, Kharazmi E. Substantial under-estimation in cancer incidence estimates for developing countries due to under-ascertainment in elderly cancer cases. Cancer Letters 2008;264(2):250-55.

Fallah M, Kharazmi E. Global cancer incidences are substantially under-estimated due to under-ascertainment in elderly cancer cases. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 2009;10(2):221-224.

Fallah M, Kharazmi E. Correction for under-ascertainment in cancer cases in the very elderly (aged 75+): External reference method. Cancer Causes Control 2008;19(7):739–49.

Fallah M, Kharazmi E. New methods of handling cases with unknown age in cancer registry data. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 2008;9(2):259-62.

Fallah M, Kharazmi E. A method to adjust for ascertainment bias in the evaluation of cancer registry data. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 2007;8(1):113-8.

Highlights

Developed some methods to deal with ascertainment bias in the cancer registry data; experience in the development and/or analysis of very large epidemiological and clinical datasets (Joint Nordic Family-Cancer Dataset; Swedish Family-Cancer Database: >12 million; Pirkanmaa Epilepsy Master Database, and Cancer Registry Data); and development of familial Prostate Cancer Risk Assessment Model (PCRAM).