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Article: Graveyard Shift, Light At Night Linked To Increased Risk.(for breast cancer)
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- November 8, 2001
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2001 NOV 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women who work the graveyard shift may face an up to 60% increased risk of breast cancer, according to a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center study.
Results of the study, the first population-based investigation of the relationship between breast-cancer risk and exposure to light at night as determined by sleep habits, bedroom lighting and graveyard-shift work, will be published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The NCI funded the study.
Led by Scott Davis, PhD, a member of the Hutchinson Center's Public Health Sciences Division, the study is one of two independent investigations to be published ...