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Cancer Incidence in Israeli Jewish Survivors of World War II
Israeli Jews of European origin, many of whom were exposed to severe famine and stress during World War II, have been found to have high incidence rates of all cancers. Keinan-Boker et al. (p. 1489) assembled a cohort of European-born Israeli Jews to investigate whether exposure to the Holocaust was associated with risk for cancer. Because individual data were not available, they used the immigration date for each individual to determine exposure. They found that, among all birth cohorts and among both sexes, exposure was associated with a statistically significantly higher risk for cancer than nonexposure. This was true for cancer at all
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