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Ahmadov, Bakhtiyor

Tajik oncologist Bakhtiyor Pochomirovich Ahmadov was born into

a family of workers in Khujand on June 26, 1933.

Ahmadov graduated from the Tajikistan State Medical Institute in

1956. From 1957 to 1959, he was the Chief Doctor of the Leninabad

Oncology Dispensary, as well as the Director of Oncology for all the

districts of northern Tajikistan. Between 1960 and 1963, he was a post-

graduate student at the Clinical and Experimental Oncology Institute of

the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (Moscow). The following

year, he became the Director of the Surgery Division of the Oncology

Dispensary of the Republic. He was also an Assistant Professor at the

Department of Clinical Surgery of the Medical Institute, as well as the

Chief Oncologist at the Ministry of Health. Between 1965 and 1973, he

served as the Head of the Oncology Association and as the Associate

Director of the Union of Surgeons of the Republic. In 1973, he became

the Head of the Oncology Department of the Tajikistan State Medical

Institute. He received his doctorate degree in medicine in 1977.

Ahmadov's research deals with the diagnosis and treatment of

stomach cancer and the swelling of the skeleton in people with cancer.

His contributions include Anatomiya sosudov opukholei (The Anatomy

of the Swelling of Veins, Dushanbe, 1974); Bibliografia Otechestvennoi

literaturi po raku zheludka za 50 let (Bibliography of State Literature

on Stomach Cancer Written in the Last 50 Years, Dushanbe, 1957).