Sleep duration and cancer risk: Time to use a "sleep-years" index?

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1399-1403

  Erren, Thomas C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer; Light; Melatonin; Sleep; Sleep years

Indexed keywords

CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RISK; HUMAN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP; SLEEP DURATION; SLEEP PARAMETERS; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SLEEP YEAR INDEX; STANDARDIZATION;

ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; SLEEP;

EID: 84864886633     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-012-0027-6     Document Type: Review

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