Cancer caused by Shiftwork

" I find it a little hard to believe."

Read the report again. It is highly speculative. No double blind studies etc. Just some one trying to get a little publicity.

Working Night Shift and Everyting Else Causes Cancer!

I worked the graveyard and I'm 86+. Have other problems but not related to shift work!

I worked the graveyard and I'm 86+.

maybe there is something to working graveyard shift for health.

In my earlier career, the only problem I had to working the graveyard shift, is your schedule does not mach the norm. And the norm is people paying you visits, doctors apointments as well as other appointments that interupts when one should be sleeping. I experienced it, it is what I had to do, but It is something I rather not do. same with putting in long hours is something I like to avoid also, (but still do).

stay in good health Stirling Stan,

phoenix911

The word MAY appears in the heading of the report. This may imply that the document may be ignored or it is admitted that it may not br true.

If the history of some controversial documents is investigated it sometimes happen that the document may have been challenged and proven to be incorrect by other experts in the same or next issue. It is actually a pity that untested work find their way into public data.

My experience indicate the opposite. My wife was a nurse and mostly did night shift and do not have cancer. Her two sisters (roughly the same genes) who never did night shift both had breast cancer. I know it is not conclusive.

Cancer is however not to be played with and women (and men) should be tested regularly.

"Cancer is however not to be played with and women (and men) should be tested regularly."

Right on target Hendrik Use common sense get recommended screenings etc. Every job has it's own set of problems but staying away from toxic stuff is best way to avoid the likely-hood of cancer.

The Idea is that by not sleeping at night, there is a lack of ceratonin production, which is supposed to hinder cancer development.

When you are asleep, how does your brain know if it is day or night? Particularly if you close the shades. I would think it is the number of hours, not when.

When I tended bar, I was particularly active at closing time and had the mental exercise of counting out before I left at about 3 AM. Went home, spent an hour or two winding down and then slept till noon. Can't see that that would be a problem except that now, and for the last thirty years, here I am at 2 AM being creative (I think).

I am sick and tired from hearing yet another report or findings where something or another gives you increased risk to cancer.......

hey, wait a minute, these stories make me sick and tired, who knows they give me cancer too

Stop this rubbish and get on with life. Life is lethal and so is breathing, eating and drinking. The report is just another extract from another report from the lancet which may in its own have been another extract from a report. By the time we read it it has lost all its significance and reason.

Due to personal circumstances I have been on the warpath with cancer for almost 10 years now. I still don't believe a single doctor or professor and certainly not any so called "experts" When you corner them they all have to admit that they do not really know the answers themselves. This kind of research is only useful to keep the population busy.