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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2009 101(21):1436-1437; doi:10.1093/jnci/djp357
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press.

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Cancer Risk From Extreme Stressors: Lessons From European Jewish Survivors of World War II

Stephen D. Hursting, Michele R. Forman

Affiliations of authors: Department of Nutritional Sciences, The University of Texas, Austin, TX (SDH); Department of Carcinogenesis, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, TX (SDH); Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX (MRF)

Correspondence to: Stephen D. Hursting, PhD, MPH, Department of Nutritional Sciences, The University of Texas, Painter Hall, Rm 5.32, Austin, TX 78712 (e-mail: shursting@austin.utexas.edu).

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In this issue of the Journal, Keinan-Boker et al. (1) reported higher cancer incidence in a cohort of European Jews who immigrated to Israel after World War II (and thus were potentially exposed to and survived the Holocaust) relative to a cohort of European Jews who immigrated to present-day Israel before the war (and thus were considered unexposed to the conditions of the Holocaust). Because data on individual exposures of Holocaust survivors were unavailable, exposure status was crafted from historical data sources of immigration dates for European-born Israeli Jews. Statistically significantly higher rates for all-site, breast, and colorectal cancers were observed among the exposed group than among the unexposed group across five categories of birth cohorts . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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