A new study reveals that women who regularly worked night shift were more likely to develop breast cancer.
Night work can disrupt circadian rhythms, suppress production of the pineal hormone melatonin and result in sleep deprivation , all of which affect hundreds of metabolic and physiological processes, including hormone production, cell cycling and apoptosis, which in turn may increase the initiation, progression and growth of human tumors, including breast cancer,
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