Light at night co-distributes with incident breast but not lung cancer in the female population of Israel

Chronobiology International

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 65-81

  Kloog, Itai ^a   Haim, Abraham ^a   Stevens, Richard G ^b   Barchana, Micha ^a,c   Portnov, Boris A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Light at night; Melatonin Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LIGHT; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NIGHT WORK; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LIGHT; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 39749099247     PISSN: 07420528     EISSN: 15256073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07420520801921572     Document Type: Article

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