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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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Early Postoperative Mortality Among Patients Aged 75 Years or Older With Stage II/III Rectal Cancer

TL;DR: Older age, higher comorbidity score, and care at a low-case-volume facility were associated with higher 6-month mortality after surgery, and patients treated at NCI-designated centers had 30% lower odds of 6- month mortality compared with those treated at teaching/research centers.
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Cancer Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries And Their Younger Uninsured Counterparts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of expanding Medicare insurance coverage to uninsured Americans approaching the Medicare eligibility age of sixty-five on their health and well-being, and found that the coverage was worse than that of those approaching the age of 65.
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The first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic and health among cancer survivors in the United States

TL;DR: Cancer survivors represent a population with high health care needs and if and how cancer survivors were affected by the first year of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic are largely unknown.