{"id":4663,"date":"2016-05-17T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/?p=4663"},"modified":"2019-02-17T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T17:31:00","slug":"important-cancer-research-by-stetson-professor-selected-for-national-publication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/2016\/05\/4663\/","title":{"rendered":"Important cancer research by Stetson professor selected for national publication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4665\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/asal-mohamadi-johnson.jpg\" alt=\"asal-mohamadi-johnson\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In a study funded by a Stetson University faculty development grant,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/other\/faculty\/profiles\/asal-mohamadi-johnson.php\">Asal Mohamadi Johnson, Ph.D, MPH<\/a>, assistant professor of integrative health science at Stetson, was the lead author of research selected for publication\u00a0in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/cebp.aacrjournals.org\/\">Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers &amp; Prevention<\/a><\/em>, a journal of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aacr.org\/Pages\/Home.aspx\">American Association for Cancer Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince joining Stetson two years ago, the university has done a good job in supporting my research and scholarship,\u201d said Johnson. \u201cI would like to thank Stetson University for providing opportunities to engage in scholarship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson\u2019s research finds that black residents of highly segregated neighborhoods were less likely to receive surgery for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) than their peers in less-segregated neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of solely looking at health disparities between white and black patients,\u201d Johnson said, \u201cour study focused on differences in survival among black patients resulting from different levels of neighborhood segregation.\u00a0It has been established that black patients have higher cancer mortality rates and are less likely to receive appropriate treatment than whites.\u201d \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/today\/2016\/05\/important-cancer-research-by-stetson-professor-selected-for-national-publication\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a study funded by a Stetson University faculty development grant,\u00a0Asal Mohamadi Johnson, Ph.D, MPH, assistant professor of integrative health science at Stetson, was the lead author of research selected for publication\u00a0in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers &amp; 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