Nighttime light level co-distributes with breast cancer incidence worldwide

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2059-2068

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Epidemiology; Geography; Light at night (LAN)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRICITY; FERTILITY; HUMAN; INCOME; LARYNX CANCER; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; BIRTH RATE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTRICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIGHT; LIGHTING; PHOTOPERIOD; REGISTRIES; URBAN POPULATION; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 78751575626     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-010-9624-4     Document Type: Article

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