Considerations of circadian impact for defining 'shift work' in cancer studies: IARC Working Group Report.

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Based on the idea that electric light at night might account for a portion of the high and rising risk of breast cancer worldwide, it was predicted long ago that women working a non-day shift would be at higher risk compared with day-working women. This hypothesis has been extended more recently to prostate cancer. On the basis of limited human evidence and sufficient evidence in experimental animals, in 2007 the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified 'shift work that i...

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Authors: Stevens, R; Hansen, J; Costa, G; Haus, E; Kauppinen, T

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Occupational and environmental medicine
• Volume: 68
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 154-162
• Publication date: 2011-02-01
• DOI: 10.1136/oem.2009.053512
• EISSN: 1470-7926
• ISSN: 1351-0711
• Language: English
• Keywords: Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; Breast Neoplasms; Occupational Diseases; Terminology as Topic; Circadian Rhythm; Prostatic Neoplasms; Work Schedule Tolerance; Research Design; Female; Middle Aged; Humans; Adult; Neoplasms; Lighting; Chronobiology Disorders; Male