Women with night shift work and breast cancer: The situation in Denmark

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1025-1026

  Hansen, Johnni ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREAST TUMOR; DENMARK; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIGHT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; WORK;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTORS; WORK;

EID: 78649467298     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2009.101691     Document Type: Editorial

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