A new study examined the differences between Jews and Palestinians in the risk factors for getting cancer
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma cancer (NHL) makes up about 3% of the total number of cancer cases in the world, and it is more common in Israel than anywhere else in the world (according to the Ministry of Health of Israel). Among other types of malignant tumors, it is the fifth most common in Israel and the eighth in the West Bank. Most of the risk factors for the disease and sub-issues are still unknown, therefore, epidemiological research of personal risk factors such as medical history, exposure to dangerous substances or examination of personal habits is of great importance. Until today, most of the studies done on the subject investigated the risk factors of the disease in European or North American populations and very few studies were done on Middle Eastern populations.
The purpose of the study was to investigate the risk factors among Israelis and Palestinians - most of whom are Muslims, with NHL from a cellular source B, in order to examine whether there are differences in the risk factors for the disease by ethnic group and by subtype of the disease. The reason for choosing the two population groups was, among other things, due to the similarities and differences between the two groups: on the one hand, the two groups share various variables such as living in a common area and geographical proximity with similar environmental conditions, and on the other hand, there are many differences in the lifestyle between the groups, in the cultural customs, in the habits of consumption and exposure, and in accessibility for medical treatment.
The study was conducted among 823 patients with NHL of Thai B and 808 healthy subjects who served as a control group. Various lifestyle variables, environmental variables and medical history were examined. The researchers used a questionnaire that had been validated in a number of similar studies in Europe in which certain relationships were found for various exposures.
The findings of the study, published in February in the journal PLoS ONE, show that among both groups, Israelis and Palestinians, certain exposure factors such as proactive exposure to the sun, use of black hair dye, a history of hospitalizations due to infections, and a family history of tumors in the blood system were increased risk factors for gettingNHL B-cell. Findings with an inverse relationship, which decrease the chance of developing the disease were linked for example for alcohol consumption. Additional exposures, such as smoking and pesticide exposure, have been linked to specific subtypes of NHL.
In addition, certain differences were found in the risk factors according to the type of population, for example, among the subjects from the Palestinian group, risk factors linked to gardening, the herpes virus, the kissing disease virus, rubella, or receiving a blood transfusion were found, while among the subjects from the Israeli group, these factors did not appear. In contrast, unique risk factors for the Israeli group included vegetable and fruit crops and a background of autoimmune diseases.
The research findings show that the tested risk factors work differently in different ethnic environments and thereby increase the chance of finding interactions between genes and the environment.
"Medicine and science are a bridge for communication"
The leader of the research, Prof. Ora Peltiel: "The research was conducted in collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian researchers from many medical centers and shows that medicine and science are a direct bridge to dialogue. In order to deepen the understanding of the causes of the disease and how their mechanisms work, further studies on the subject will be required, but without a doubt this is the opening shot of an in-depth and important research process that reveals connections between factors of consumption habits and exposure of the Israeli and Palestinian population to an increased risk of contracting cancer of the type NHL".
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This is the state of the Jewish people which was legally given to the Jewish people who returned home after 2000 years. Jordan was also part of the mandate and was torn apart by the treacherous British and the Palestinians are the majority there and this is their country. The Jewish people are not immigrants here, they are the original indigenous people. The country is first of all Jewish and democratic for Jews. I am not interested in the feelings of the Arabs and their well-being, I only care about my people, why should I think what is good for my enemies and what do they think? Which side are you on anyway? If it is not good for you that you are a Jew and this is your country and you have a desire to identify with your enemy and give them benefits and more countries as if there are already dozens of Arab countries. You don't deserve to live here, go back to exile, go to the USA or Canada where there is no occupation (2 huge settlements, genocide of the Indians and stealing their land)
Lord Nostradamus, go learn history.
The Palestinians who are defined as such today, are not a uniform people - that is true and clear, but they are all those who lived here before the establishment of the state and are not Jews. Some of them are immigrants, some were born here and have always been here.
Immigrants or natives, what does it matter? They live here by right and by law. Most of the Jews in Israel are also immigrants or descendants of immigrants - so what?
The State of Israel, admittedly as a Jewish state/home to the persecuted Jewish people in the world..., has committed to giving equal rights to all its residents, including non-Jews.
And that is the problem, because this part of equal rights still does not exist, neither towards the Israeli Arabs nor towards the Palestinians in Area C. On the one hand, they are guilty because they did not cooperate and did not accept the transformation of the state into a Jewish state, but we are also guilty - because we did not establish here A free multinational democratic country like Canada or the United States, we have established something new here that is not like it anywhere else in the world - a country of one religion/nationality/race with a very complex and complicated definition that we ourselves do not know how to digest, both democratic and belonging to one religion for one race and nation One, and which should also grant democratic rights to the locals who are not wanted here, who are considered "type B", as a "demographic problem", but who nevertheless are here de facto.
Try to think that if you were born an Israeli Arab in Israel, a second-class citizen with such a demographic problem, or a Palestinian who has been held in Area C for 50 years as a temporary resident without rights - what would you feel or think about this country or this policy?
A little boy
The Arabs pronounce it with P. Rafa (like pistachio)
Palestinians? What is? There is no p in Arabic. The Arabs in the Land of Israel are invading immigrants from all Arab countries with nothing in common except hatred and jealousy of the Jews and a desire to destroy Israel