The darkness at the end of the tunnel: Summary and evaluation of an international symposium on light, endocrine systems and cancer

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2002, Pages 71-78

  Poole, Charles ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Attributable fraction; Attributable risk; Cancer; Confounding; Consensus and controversy; Endocrine systems; Exposure surrogate; Graphical methods; Latitude; Light

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BREAST CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; LABORATORY TEST; LATITUDE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NIGHT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RODENT; SHIFT WORKER; SYMPOSIUM;

EID: 0036332250     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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