Light in the built environment: Potential role of circadian disruption in endocrine disruption and breast cancer

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 279-287

  Stevens, R G ^a   Rea, M S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Buildings; Circadian disruption; Endocrine disruption; Light

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; MELATONIN;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTRICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEAR; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; INDUSTRIALIZATION; IRIS; LIGHT; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; STRESS;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESTROGENS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MELATONIN; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0034982529     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011237000609     Document Type: Article

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