Iran is to launch a cancer research center in Karbala, Iraq, to provide people with advanced treatment for diseases.

 An expert team of the Iranian physicians are to have the first allogeneic stem cell transplant of bone marrow in the Iraqi city.
The Father of Iran's stem cell transplant, Ardeshir Ghavamzadeh, said: "Soon, the first allogeneic bone marrow transplant will be performed on a patient with leukemia in Karbala."
The chancellor of Motamed Cancer Research Institute, Ramin Sarrami Forooshani, also has traveled to Karbala to sign an agreement with Iraqi officials for transferring stem cell transplant technology and setting up a cancer treatment and stem cell transplant center. 
"The primary focus of this center will be on stem cell transplantation in the treatment of patients suffering from cancer and thalassemia as well as the technological diagnosis of hereditary cancers. In the near future, with the completion of the necessary infrastructure and equipment, comprehensive cell therapy and gene therapy projects will be carried out in the center," he said.
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