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Night shifts are carcinogenic
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the cancer arm of the World Health Organisation, has reclassified overnight shift work as a probable carcinogen. Epidemiological studies on nurses and flight crews have previously linked night work with cancer of the breast and prostate. An IARC panel of 24 experts looked at eight epidemiological studies on cancer rates from different geograp ...
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