Dr. Baruch Modan was an Israeli

Israel

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 medical scientist

Medicine

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. Dr. Modan made significant findings in the field of oncology

Oncology

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 and was an expert on the effects of radiation

Radiation

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Dr. Modan worked with various types of cancer

Cancer

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, and in 1974 demonstrated that the chances of getting breast cancer

Breast cancer

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 increase for anyone who has had X-ray

X-ray

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 dosages as low as 1.6 rem. He was an expert on treating cancer among children.

A professor at the University of Tel Aviv, Dr. Modan was Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology and Head of the Stanley Steyer Institute for Cancer Epidemiology and Research at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine

Sackler Faculty of Medicine

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. He was also Director-General of the Israeli Ministry of Health.