Night work and breast cancer estrogen receptor status - results from the German GENICA study

• Päätekijät: Sylvia Rabstein (Tekijä), Volker Harth (Tekijä), Beate Pesch (Tekijä), Dirk Pallapies (Tekijä), Anne Lotz (Tekijä), Christina Justenhoven (Tekijä), Christian Baisch (Tekijä), Markus Schiffermann (Tekijä), Susanne Haas (Tekijä), Hans-Peter Fischer (Tekijä), Evelyn Heinze (Tekijä), Christiane Pierl (Tekijä), Hiltrud Brauch (Tekijä), Ute Hamann (Tekijä), Yon Ko (Tekijä), Thomas Brüning (Tekijä)
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• Julkaistu: Nordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health (NOROSH), 2013-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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OBJECTIVES: The potential mechanisms that link night-shift work with breast cancer have been extensively discussed. Exposure to light at night (LAN) depletes melatonin that has oncostatic and anti-estrogenic properties and may lead to a modified expression of estrogen receptor (ER) α. Here, we explo...