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Circumcision vs. ancer: A Proven Theory
The following article is written
By A. RAVICH, M.D. and ROBERT A. RAVICH, M.D.
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Institute of Applied Biology, Brooklyn
themselves upon a crusade to
(Editor's Note: Dr. Abraham
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Science has often appeared to
inform the world of their find-
lit av ich , noted urologist', and his
ings. On July 17, 1950, Dr. A.
- . Robert A. Ravich,
son, Dr
Ravich presented his findings
pioneering many years into the
before the Fifth International
causes of certain types of can-
Cancer Congress in Paris. Not
cer, were the first physicians
so long ago the American Can-
in the medical world to recog-
cer Society finally confirmed.
nize the full significance of
what the Raviches have been
the relation of circhmcision to
saying for more than a decade.
cancer and. consequently set
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b e the enemy of religion, yet at
t imes science and religion be-
come intertwined and by, differ-
e 1 nt routes arrive at the same
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t he recognition of the wisdom
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t om of circumcision and may
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t he book of Genesis, you will find
t he reason. The rite of circum-
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ision as expressed there is part
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b etween God and Abraham, the
F ather of the Jewish nation.
When Abraham was 99 years
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old and living in the land of
anaan, in what is now modern
Israel, the Eternal One appeared
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to him and entered into a com-
pact with him. He gave the land
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of Canaan to Abraham and 'to
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his descendants as their posses-
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sion for all time. In return for
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this grant, Abraham was to seal
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the bargain by being circumcised
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and all his male descendants,
. from that time on, were to be
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circumcised.
Recently, there has been a ten-
dency for non-Jews to be circum-
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cised, not for religious reasons
but because of the obvious hy-
gienic advantages. Now, scientific
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information obtained from the
comparison of the circumcised
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present for his protection from
the common scourge cancer.
Scientists have been able to
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show by comparing Jews and
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non-Jews that if circumcision
were universally practiced on
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males, in infancy, the death toll
from cancer could be reduced by
approximately 25,040 every year
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males, although among non-cir-
cumcised peoples it is not at all
a rare disease. Only one case of
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cancer of the penis has ever
been discovered in the United
States in a Jewish man, and that
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man had, for some reason, not
been circumcised.
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up only 2.5% of all cancers in
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where personal cleanliness is ne-
glected, it may reach as high as
17.5% of all cancers.
another fact was also
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recognized by several physicians.
They found that among Jewish
•• women, cancer of the cervix was
es extremely rare. Yet this disease
was very common among non-
es Jewish women living under ex-
•• actly the same conditions.
Specializing in diseases of the
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gland, we were in a good posi-
tion through the years to analyze
and differentiate between the
Jewish and non-Jewish patients
coming to the Institute of Ap-
plied Biology.
In men over 45, the prostate
gland commonly grows in size,
frequenfy requiring an opera-
tion. In about 20% of cases, the
pfostrate gland became cancer-
ous. That figure of 20% stuck in
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cases and came up with a very
interesting fact: the rate of can-
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cer of the prostate was over
ten times greater in our Gentile
patients than among the Jewish
ones. To us there appeared only
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one answer. The Jewish males
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were all circumcised while very
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