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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', {{MD}}, ({{LifeData|birth=1899-06-10|birthplace=Slonim|birthcountry=Poland|death=1983-12|deathplace=Bal Harbor, FL|deathcountry=USA}}) was a Polish-American urologist who graduated at the Columbia University in 1912.<ref name="prabook">{{REFweb
|url=https://prabook.com/web/abraham.ravich/790435
|title={{FULLPAGENAME}}
|website=Prabook
|accessdate=2021-10-06
}}</ref><ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.library-archives.cumc.columbia.edu/obit/abraham-ravich
|title=Archives & Special Collections: {{FULLPAGENAME}}
|website=Columbia University
|accessdate=2021-10-06
}}</ref>
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"/>
{{PUB}}
* {{REFbook
|last=Ravich
|first=Abraham
|author-link=Abraham Ravich
|title=Preventing V.D. and cancer by circumcision
|publisher=Philosophical Library
|year=1973
|# pages=211
|isbn=978-0802221100
}}
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Alleged reasons for circumcision]]
{{REF}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ravich, Abraham}}
[[Category:Person]]
[[Category:Male]]
[[Category:Deceased]]
<!--[[Category:Jewish]]-->
[[Category:Urologist]]
[[Category:USA]]
|url=https://prabook.com/web/abraham.ravich/790435
|title={{FULLPAGENAME}}
|website=Prabook
|accessdate=2021-10-06
}}</ref><ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.library-archives.cumc.columbia.edu/obit/abraham-ravich
|title=Archives & Special Collections: {{FULLPAGENAME}}
|website=Columbia University
|accessdate=2021-10-06
}}</ref>
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"/>
{{PUB}}
* {{REFbook
|last=Ravich
|first=Abraham
|author-link=Abraham Ravich
|title=Preventing V.D. and cancer by circumcision
|publisher=Philosophical Library
|year=1973
|# pages=211
|isbn=978-0802221100
}}
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Alleged reasons for circumcision]]
{{REF}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ravich, Abraham}}
[[Category:Person]]
[[Category:Male]]
[[Category:Deceased]]
<!--[[Category:Jewish]]-->
[[Category:Urologist]]
[[Category:USA]]