Re: "Night-shift work and Breast cancer risk in a Cohort of Chinese women"

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 172, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 865-866

  Girschik, Jennifer ^a   Heyworth, Jane ^b   Fritschi, Lin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ASIAN; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RISK; CHINESE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HORMONE URINE LEVEL; HUMAN; LETTER; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MEASUREMENT; NIGHT WORK; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SHIFT WORKER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHINA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; INCIDENCE; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; TIME; WORK SCHEDULE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHINA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 77957317107     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwq275     Document Type: Letter

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