Study - Holocaust Survivors More Likely To Have Cancer

Study - Survivors of the Holocaust are more likely to suffer from cancer and die from it, researchers say.
Israel's Haifa University suspect that cancers are most likely caused by the near-starvation of European Jews during World War II.
The researchers looked at the incidence and death rate from cancer in around four million Israelis of European origin, comparing those who emigrated from Europe before 1939 with those from after the war ended in 1945.

Those who had been in Europe during the Holocaust were more than twice as likely to suffer cancer later in life, and up to 13 percent less likely to survive the disease.
Some cancers were particularly common among Holocaust survivors, they found.
For example, cancer of the large intestine was nine times likely to afflict male survivors.