Cancer Risk From Extreme Stressors: Lessons From European Jewish Survivors of World War II
Tags: EDITORIALS; CANCER -- Epidemiology; JEWS, European; JEWS -- Migrations; WORLD War, 1939-1945 -- Jews; FOOD -- Caloric content; STRESS (Psychology)
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