The Nightingale study: Rationale, study design and baseline characteristics of a prospective cohort study on shift work and breast cancer risk among nurses

BMC Cancer

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Pijpe, Anouk ^a   Slottje, Pauline ^b   van Pelt, Cres ^a   Stehmann, Floor ^a   Kromhout, Hans ^b   van Leeuwen, Flora E ^a   Vermeulen, Roel C H ^b   Rookus, Matti A ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Chronic disease; Night work; Nurses; Occupational exposures; Shift work

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NAIL; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PILOT STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTERED NURSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SHIFT WORKER; YOUNG ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; NURSE; WORK SCHEDULE; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; DRUG EXPOSURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; INTERNET; JOB EXPERIENCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NURSE TRAINING; NURSING STAFF; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK REDUCTION; X RAY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NURSES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESEARCH DESIGN; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DNA; RADIOISOTOPE;

EID: 84896698132     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-14-47     Document Type: Article

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