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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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Subsite-Specific Colorectal Cancer Incidence Rates and Stage Distributions among Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States, 1995 to 1999
Xiao-Cheng Wu,Vivien W. Chen,Jim Martin,Steven D. Roffers,Frank D. Groves,Catherine N. Correa,Elizabeth Hamilton-Byrd,Ahmedin Jemal +7 more
TL;DR: The patterns of subsite-specific colorectal cancer incidence in API differ from those of Whites and African Americans, and lower percentage of localized disease in API for proximal colon cancer than for distal colon and rectal cancers was observed.
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Annual Medical Expenditure and Productivity Loss Among Colorectal, Female Breast, and Prostate Cancer Survivors in the United States
Zhiyuan Zheng,K. Robin Yabroff,Gery P. Guy,Xuesong Han,Chunyu Li,Matthew P. Banegas,Donatus U. Ekwueme,Ahmedin Jemal +7 more
TL;DR: Colorectal, breast, and prostate cancer survivors experienced statistically significantly higher economic burden compared with individuals without a cancer history; however, excess economic burden varies by cancer site and age.
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Association of race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and breast cancer subtypes in the National Cancer Data Base (2010-2011).
Helmneh M. Sineshaw,Mia M. Gaudet,Elizabeth Ward,W. Dana Flanders,W. Dana Flanders,Carol DeSantis,Chun Chieh Lin,Ahmedin Jemal +7 more
TL;DR: In a large nationwide hospital-based dataset, higher odds of having TN breast cancer in black women and of HER2-overexpressing in API compared with white women in every level of SES are found.
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The burden of rare cancers in the United States.
TL;DR: Information is provided on incidence rates, stage at diagnosis, and survival for more than 100 rare cancers in the United States by using data from the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries and the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program.
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Disparities in breast cancer prognostic factors by race, insurance status, and education
TL;DR: Extending health insurance coverage to all women is likely to have an effect on reducing racial disparities in the development of breast cancers with poor prognostic factors, as area-level educational attainment decreased.