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Does working night shifts increase breast cancer risk?

https://www.facingourrisk.org/XRAY/night-shift
Full article: https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/108/12/djw169/2706931

The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified night shift work as a possible risk factor for breast cancer in 2007, although the majority of the evidence for this claim came from studies of animals after their normal sleep-wake cycle was disrupted. The authors of this study surveyed women from three different cohorts to examine whether night shift work can increase a woman’s breast cancer risk. (3/24/17)

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