Graveyard shift: cancer all-clear for night work based on 'bad science', warn scientists
Article
2016
136
4-7
breast cancer ; night work ; occupational disease ; shift work ; trade union document
Occupational diseases
English
"An Oxford University study concluded the classification of night work as a cause of breast cancer ‘is no longer justified'. The media trumpeted the good news, and women were told they should be ‘reassured'. No one demurred. Then Hazards editor Rory O'Neill discovered the research may have got it seriously wrong."
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