Working night shifts for more than 30 years could double women's risk of developing breast cancer, a new study from Canadian researchers suggests. Researchers with Queen's Cancer Research Institute, the British Columbia Cancer Agency and elsewhere, looked at 1,134 Canadian women who had developed breast cancer and compared them to 1,179 similar women without the disease. Read more here.
Study mentioned: Grundy A, et al. Increased risk of breast cancer associated with long-term shift work in Canada. Occup Environ Med. Published online first 1 July 2013.
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