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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', {{MD}}, ({{LifeData|birth=1899-06-10|birthplace=Slonim|birthcountry=Poland|death=1983-12|deathplace=Bal Harbor, {{USSC|FL}}|deathcountry=USA}}) was a Polish-American urologist who graduated at the {{UNI|Columbia University |CUNY}} in 1912.<ref name="prabook">{{REFweb
|url=https://prabook.com/web/abraham.ravich/790435
|title={{FULLPAGENAME}}
|url=https://www.library-archives.cumc.columbia.edu/obit/abraham-ravich
|title=Archives & Special Collections: {{FULLPAGENAME}}
|website={{UNI|Columbia University|CUNY}}
|accessdate=2021-10-06
}}</ref>
== Allegation history ==
Ravich was first to report on transmissible virus in [[prostate cancer]], [[cervical cancer]] and [[bladder cancer]] as [[Sexually transmitted infection|venereal disease]]. He suggested [[Routine Infant Circumcision|circumcision]] of new born males to prevent such cancers.<ref name="prabook"/>
* 1942: Abraham Ravich claims that circumcision prevents [[prostate cancer]].
* 1951: Abraham Ravich invents claims that circumcision prevents [[cervical cancer]] in women.
* 1971: Abraham Ravich claims that circumcision prevents [[bladder cancer|cancer of the bladder]] and the rectum.
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* {{REFbookRavich1973}} |last=Ravich* {{Ravich1971}} |first=Abraham |author-link=Abraham Ravich |title=Preventing V.D. and cancer by circumcision |publisher=Philosophical Library |year=1973 |# pages=211 |isbn=978-0802221100* {{Ravich1951}}* {{Ravich1942}}
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* [[Alleged reasons for circumcision]]
* [[Circumcised doctors]]
* [[History of circumcision]]
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