Shift work and colorectal cancer risk in the MCC-Spain case-control study

• Main Authors: Kyriaki Papantoniou (Author), Gemma Castaño-Vinyals (Author), Ana Espinosa (Author), Michelle C Turner (Author), Maria Henar Alonso-Aguado (Author), Vicente Martin (Author), Nuria Aragonés (Author), Beatriz Pérez-Gómez (Author), Benito Mirón Pozo (Author), Inés Gómez-Acebo (Author), Eva Ardanaz (Author), Jone M Altzibar (Author), Rosana Peiro (Author), Adonina Tardon (Author), José Andrés Lorca (Author), Maria Dolores Chirlaque (Author), Andrés García-Palomo (Author), Jose Juan Jimenez-Moleon (Author), Trinidad Dierssen (Author), Maria Ederra (Author), Pilar Amiano (Author), Marina Pollan (Author), Victor Moreno (Author), Manolis Kogevinas (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Nordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health (NOROSH), 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVES: Shift work that involves circadian disruption has been associated with a higher cancer risk. Most epidemiological studies to date have focused on breast cancer risk and evidence for other common tumors is limited. We evaluated the risk for colorectal cancer (CRC) in relation to shift wor...