Holocaust survivors in Israel have developed more than twice as many cases of cancer as have people in the general population in Israel, according to a new study by University of Haifa's School of Public Health.
Male survivors were nine times more likely to have cancer of the large intestine than European men who immigrated to Israel before World War II. The rate of intestinal cancer in female survivors was 2.25 times higher than their European peers who arrived in Israel before World War II.
The study, based on National Cancer Registry statistics, is the first of its kind.