Sex Differences in the Association between Night Shift Work and the Risk of Cancers: A Meta-Analysis of 57 Articles.

Wen Liu Zhonghan Zhou Dahai Dong Li-Jiang Sun Guiming Zhang

Published in: Disease markers (2018)

This is the first meta-analysis identifying the positive association between night shift work and the risk of cancer and verifying that there is no sex difference in the effect of night shift work on cancer risk. Cancer risk increases with cumulative years of night shift work.

Keyphrases

systematic review
sleep quality
randomized controlled trial
squamous cell carcinoma
depressive symptoms
squamous cell
lymph node metastasis
case control