ArticleBritish journal of cancer2021
Exposure to artificial light at night and risk of cancer: where do we go from here?
Article in British journal of cancer, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Light at night and risk of breast cancer: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis.International journal of health geographics · 2021Pooled it
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- Night-shift work is associated with peripheral clock gene dysregulation and circadian transcriptional network remodeling in female healthcare workers.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
- Night shift work and breast cancer: from etiopathology to precision risk analysis.NPJ breast cancer · 2025Review
- Role of the period family in mediating the interplay between circadian disruption and cancer (Review).Oncology letters · 2025Review
- Comprehensive integrative analysis of circadian rhythms in human saliva.Npj biological timing and sleep · 2025Article
- Perinatal Exposures to Ambient Fine Particulate Matter and Outdoor Artificial Light at Night and Risk of Pediatric Papillary Thyroid Cancer.Environmental health perspectives · 2025Article
- Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism.Nature climate change · 2025Article
- Quality analysis of photometers using vertical window illuminance measurements.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Road traffic noise and breast cancer: DNA methylation in four core circadian genes.Clinical epigenetics · 2024Article
- Artificial night light and thyroid cancer.World journal of methodology · 2024Article
- What happens when the lights are left on? Transcriptomic and phenotypic habituation to light pollution.iScience · 2024Article
- Light exposure differs by sex in the US, with females receiving less bright light.Npj biological timing and sleep · 2024Article
- Light as a Modulator of Non-Image-Forming Brain Functions-Positive and Negative Impacts of Increasing Light Availability.Clocks & sleep · 2023Review
- Outdoor light at night and risk of endometrial cancer in the NIH-AARP diet and health study.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2023Article
- Role of Circadian Clock on the Pathogenesis and Lifestyle Management in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.Nutrients · 2022Review
- Light at night and the risk of breast cancer: Findings from the Sister study.Environment international · 2022Article
- The impact of image resolution on power, bias, and confounding: A simulation study of ambient light at night exposure.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Despite experimental and mechanistic data suggesting circadian disruption's role in carcinogenesis, mixed findings from epidemiological investigations of artificial light at night and cancer risk in the general population are difficult to interpret due to exposure assessment limitations. It will be important for future studies to assess and validate individual-level exposures, ideally over the lifetime.
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