Night shiftwork and breast cancer risk: Overall evidence

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 236-

  Hansen, Johnni ^a   Stevens, Richard G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LETTER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIFT WORKER;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 79951677185     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2010.061630     Document Type: Letter

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