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Ahmedin Jemal
Researcher at American Cancer Society
Publications - 568
Citations - 492750
Ahmedin Jemal is an academic researcher from American Cancer Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer & Population. The author has an hindex of 132, co-authored 500 publications receiving 380474 citations. Previous affiliations of Ahmedin Jemal include Centers for Disease Control and Prevention & Emory University.
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Melanoma in adolescents and young adults (ages 15-39 years): United States, 1999-2006
Hannah K. Weir,Loraine D. Marrett,Vilma Cokkinides,Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan,Pragna Patel,Eric Tai,Ahmedin Jemal,Jun Li,Julian Kim,Donatus U. Ekwueme +9 more
TL;DR: Differences in incidence rates by anatomic site, histology, and stage among adolescents and young adults by race, ethnicity, and sex suggest that both host characteristics and behaviors influence risk.
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Pancreatic Cancer Death Rates by Race Among US Men and Women, 1970–2009
TL;DR: In the United States, whites and blacks experienced opposite trends in pancreatic cancer death rates between 1970 and 2009 that are largely unexplainable by known risk factors.
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Implications of Nine Risk Prediction Models for Selecting Ever-Smokers for Computed Tomography Lung Cancer Screening.
Hormuzd A. Katki,Stephanie Kovalchik,Lucia C. Petito,Li C. Cheung,Eric J. Jacobs,Ahmedin Jemal,Christine D. Berg,Anil K. Chaturvedi +7 more
TL;DR: Nine prominent lung cancer risk models were applied to a representative sample of the U.S. population and the similarities and differences in the populations of ever-smokers selected for CT lung cancer screening by each model were investigated.
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Recent Trends in Black-White Disparities in Cancer Mortality
TL;DR: The Black-White disparity in overall cancer death rates narrowed from the early 1990s through 2004, especially in men, but this reduction was driven predominantly by more rapid decreases in mortality from tobacco-related cancers in Black men than White men.
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Mortality from leading causes by education and race in the United States, 2001
Ahmedin Jemal,Michael J. Thun,Elizabeth E. Ward,S. Jane Henley,Vilma Cokkinides,Taylor Murray +5 more
TL;DR: Potentially avoidable factors associated with lower educational status account for almost half of all deaths among working-aged adults in the U.S.; these deaths are not confined to any single racial or ethnic group and highlight the need for greater attention to social determinants of health.