Rotating night shifts and risk of skin cancer in the nurses' health study

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 602-606

  Schernhammer, Eva S ^a,c,d   Razavi, Pedram ^e   Li, Tricia Y ^a   Qureshi, Abrar A ^a,b   Han, Jiali ^a,b  

^a CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; FEMALE; HAIR COLOR; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOMA; NURSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SHIFT WORKER; SKIN CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HAIR COLOR; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MELATONIN; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; ODDS RATIO; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 79953850282     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djr044     Document Type: Article

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