Ahmedin Muktar Jemal is an American cancer epidemiologist who serves as senior vice president of the Surveillance & Health Equity Science Department of the
American Cancer Society. He has been researching racial differences in
lung cancer
Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma (since about 98–99% of all lung cancers are carcinomas), is a malignant lung tumor characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. Lung carcinomas derive from transformed, malign ...
rates since the mid-1990s, when he was a fellow at the
National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) coordinates the United States National Cancer Program and is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is one of eleven agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ...
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American epidemiologists
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American Cancer Society people
Addis Ababa University alumni
Louisiana State University alumni
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