Light-at-night, circadian disruption and breast cancer: assessment of existing evidence
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...Apparently, women exposed to artificial light, or with jobs that can alter their circadian rhythms, are predisposed to breast cancer.(19) The peripheral effect of altered circadian rhythms in human breast would be due to the fact that the central clock can entrain peripheral clocks in tissues....
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...Further, given the key role melatonin may play (for example in the “light-atnight” hypothesis [43]) it is worth noting that CD-1 mice, like nearly all laboratory mouse species, do not synthesise melatonin, and so there may be differences in melatoninproducing rodents....
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...The possibility that a portion of the breast cancer burden might be explained by the introduction and increasing use of electricity to light the night more than 20 years ago (Stevens, 2009)....
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