Preventing cancers caused by chronodisruption: Blocking blue light alone is unlikely to do the trick

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1077-1078

  Erren, Thomas C ^a   Reiter, Russel J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; BLUE LIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CONTACT LENS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; LETTER; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OVARY CANCER; PHOTORECEPTOR; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RISK REDUCTION; SPECTACLES; TADPOLE;

HUMANS; LIGHT; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 69349087706     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.05.003     Document Type: Letter

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