Artificial lighting in the industrialized world: Circadian disruption and breast cancer

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 501-507

  Stevens, Richard G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Circadian disruption; Melatonin; Shift work

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; MELATONIN;

BREAST; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENVIRONMENT; EXPOSURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; INDUSTRIALIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHIFT WORKER; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHRONOBIOLOGY DISORDERS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MELATONIN; RISK FACTORS; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 33645502701     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-005-9001-x     Document Type: Review

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