ArticleCancers2023
Rotating Night Shift Work, Sleep, and Thyroid Cancer Risk in the Nurses' Health Study 2.
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- Clinical and Metabolic Factors Associated with Comorbidities of Thyroid and Breast Diseases in Women Aged 25-55 Years.International journal of women's health · 2026Article
- Association between circadian rhythm disruption and the risk of malignancy in patients with thyroid nodules: a propensity score-matched study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
- Role of the period family in mediating the interplay between circadian disruption and cancer (Review).Oncology letters · 2025Review
- Risk Prediction Model for Elderly Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Based on Combined Sleep Quality Assessment and Multimodal Ultrasound.Endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism · 2025Article
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- Sleep quality during preparation for RAI: recombinant TSH vs. levothyroxine withdrawal.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- Impact of sleep on gastrointestinal cancer.World journal of clinical oncology · 2024Article
- Protective Effects of Melatonin against Carcinogen-Induced Oxidative Damage in the Thyroid.Cancers · 2024Review
- Downside of Helping Professions: A Comparative Study of Health Indicators and Health Behaviour among Nurses and Early Childhood Educators.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Night shift work has been associated with breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer, but evidence on other types of cancer is limited. We prospectively evaluated the association of rotating night shift work, sleep duration, and sleep difficulty with thyroid cancer risk in the Nurses' Health Study 2 (NHS2). We assessed rotating night shift work duration (years) at baseline and throughout follow-up (1989-2015) and sleep characteristics in 2001. Cox proportional hazard models, adjusted for potential confounders, were used to calculate hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for (a) shift work duration, (b) sleep duration, and (c) difficulty falling or staying asleep. We stratified the analyses of night shift work by sleep duration and sleep difficulty. Over 26 years of follow-up, 588 incident cases were identified among 114,534 women in the NHS2 cohort. We observed no association between night shift work and the risk of thyroid cancer. Difficulty falling or staying asleep was suggestively associated with a higher incidence of thyroid cancer when reported sometimes (HR 1.26, 95% CI 0.95, 1.66) and all or most of the time (HR 1.35, 95% CI 1.00, 1.81). Night shift workers (10+ years) with sleep difficulty all or most of the time (HR 1.47; 0.58-3.73) or with >7 h of sleep duration (HR 2.17; 95% CI, 1.21-3.92) had a higher risk of thyroid cancer. We found modest evidence for an increased risk of thyroid cancer in relation to sleep difficulty, which was more pronounced among night shift workers.
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