Working graveyard shift found to have 'probable' link to cancer
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Working graveyard shift found to have 'probable' link to cancer
Cpoied from the International Agency for Research on Cancer website:
Like UV rays and diesel exhaust fumes, working the graveyard shift will soon be listed as a "probable" cause of cancer. It is a surprising step validating a concept once considered wacky. And it is based on research that finds higher rates of breast and prostate cancer among women and men whose work day starts after dark
Next month, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the cancer arm of the World Health Organization, will add overnight shift work as a probable carcinogen. The American Cancer Society says it will likely follow. Up to now, the U.S. organization has considered the work-cancer link to be "uncertain, controversial or unproven."
The higher cancer rates don't prove working overnight can cause cancer. There may be other factors common among graveyard shift workers that raise their risk for cancer.
However, scientists suspect that overnight work is dangerous because it disrupts the circadian rhythm, the body's biological clock. The hormone melatonin, which can suppress tumor development, is normally produced at night.
If the graveyard shift theory eventually proves correct, millions of people worldwide could be affected. Experts estimate that nearly 20 percent of the working population in developed countries work night shifts.
more info here:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc
So night workers!! avoid caffine, and what ever you do , DO NOT STAY AWAKE!!!!!
Like UV rays and diesel exhaust fumes, working the graveyard shift will soon be listed as a "probable" cause of cancer. It is a surprising step validating a concept once considered wacky. And it is based on research that finds higher rates of breast and prostate cancer among women and men whose work day starts after dark
Next month, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the cancer arm of the World Health Organization, will add overnight shift work as a probable carcinogen. The American Cancer Society says it will likely follow. Up to now, the U.S. organization has considered the work-cancer link to be "uncertain, controversial or unproven."
The higher cancer rates don't prove working overnight can cause cancer. There may be other factors common among graveyard shift workers that raise their risk for cancer.
However, scientists suspect that overnight work is dangerous because it disrupts the circadian rhythm, the body's biological clock. The hormone melatonin, which can suppress tumor development, is normally produced at night.
If the graveyard shift theory eventually proves correct, millions of people worldwide could be affected. Experts estimate that nearly 20 percent of the working population in developed countries work night shifts.
more info here:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc
So night workers!! avoid caffine, and what ever you do , DO NOT STAY AWAKE!!!!!
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From: Lyndon KS
I figured the only ones that would read this would be the fellow night-hawks .....its kinda funny....How many years y'all been working nights?
total of about 9 here.......
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Only been doing it a year. I had one job this year that wasn't night shift, hated it. Everything is closed when you get off work, and I tend to stay up. When I'm on nights, come home, have a shower, and go to bed. Get 10 hrs of sleep a day. Works out great.
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If you do any thing long enough at the right amounts you'll get cancer. I ember a study about a certain mix of muffin, that when the ingredients were fed to rats the rats developed cancer. But the amount of the magic ingredient was so small in the muffin and so hugely dosed to the rats that a person would have to eat a 50 pound muffin everyday for 20 years to get the same dose. I think you could perform a study that finds that being alive causes cancer. Last time I checked none of us get out of life alive any ways. Like Homer J. Simpson said once "keep on truckin!!, as if I would ever stop truckin!!"
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I think you could perform a study that finds that being alive causes cancer. Last time I checked none of us get out of life alive any ways. Like Homer J. Simpson said once "keep on truckin!!, as if I would ever stop truckin!!"Thats my .02
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Carpenter, i remember the big to-do about sacharin, they fed teh rats the equaivilent to a human eating like 50 lbs a day of the stuff....
But if nothign else, this is a good arguement for an increase in shift differential!!
But if nothign else, this is a good arguement for an increase in shift differential!!
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That all depends,,,,, I'm working the graveyard shift for seven days, then off three,,,,, daylight shift for six days,,,, off two,,, seven days of the four to twelve shift,,,, off two (actually only a day and a half),,,,, and then right back to seven graveyards and so on and so on and I been doing this for TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS!!! 
Cancer is the least of my worries!
Cancer is the least of my worries!
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That all depends,,,,, I'm working the graveyard shift for seven days, then off three,,,,, daylight shift for six days,,,, off two,,, seven days of the four to twelve shift,,,, off two (actually only a day and a half),,,,, and then right back to seven graveyards and so on and so on and I been doing this for TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS!!! Cancer is the least of my worries!
Cancer is the least of my worries!
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