Night Shift Work and Breast Cancer Risk
A partir des données de 10 études prospectives incluant un total de 1,4 million de participantes, cette méta-analyse évalue l'association entre un travail posté de nuit et le risque de cancer du sein (4 660 cas)
Despite an assessment in 2007 indicating that night shift work was probably carcinogenic, data from three new studies and from a review of earlier evidence, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, indicate that night shift work has little or no effect on breast cancer incidence.
In its 2007 review, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer categorized shift work that involves disruption of the circadian rhythm, people’s internal “body clock,” as a probable carcinogen. This was based on evidence about breast cancer in animal studies. At the time there was only limited evidence about breast cancer risk in humans.
To examine whether night shift work (...)
Journal of the National Cancer Institute , communiqué de presse, 2016