Shift work and breast cancer : a critical review of the epidemiological evidence / Anthony Swerdlow

• This report reviews critically the epidemiological literature that has addressed the possible relation between shift work and risk of breast cancer. Four published studies were identified that have directly investigated this relation, two cohort studies and two case-control studies. A potential mechanism for a relation between shift work and breast cancer risk would be via an effect of altered light exposure at night on levels of melatonin or other hormones that might affect cancer risk; this mechanism has not been established, however. Contents: Executive summary; Introduction and background; Methods; Epidemiological studies of breast cancer risk in relation to shift work; Other relevant epidemiology; Conclusions; Further research; References; Appendix. This report and the work it describes were funded by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Its contents, including any opinions and/or conclusions expressed, are those of the author alone and do not necessarily reflect HSE policy

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