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|a Light Pollution as a New Risk Factor for Human Breast and Prostate Cancers /
|c by Abraham Haim, Boris A. Portnov.
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|a Preface -- Introduction -- PART 1: ARTIFICIAL LIGHT AND HUMAN TEMPORAL ORGANIZATION -- Artificial light and its physicochemical properties (by Fabio Falchi) -- Light and dark cycles as a basis of temporal organization -- The biological clock and its entrainment by photoperiod -- LAN exposure and its potential effects on daily rhythms and seasonal disruptions -- Melatonin (MLT) –“hormone of darkness” and a “jack of all traits” -- PART II: LIGHT POLLUTION, ITS KNOWN HEALTH EFFECTS AND IMPACT ON ENERGY CONSERVATION -- Introduction and spread of artificial illumination – a human history retrospective -- Biological definition of light pollution -- Light pollution as a general stressor -- The effects of light pollution on animal rhythms and ecology -- Light pollution and hormone-dependent cancers: summary of accumulated empirical evidence -- PART III: LIGHT POLLUTION AND ITS POTENTIAL LINKS TO BREAST AND PROSTATE CANCERS -- Geographic patterns of breast and prostate cancers (BC&PC) worldwide -- Light pollution and its association with breast and prostate cancers (BC&PC) in population-level studies -- Selected methodological issues of Light-at-Night (LAN) – Breast and Prostate Cancers (BC&PC) research -- Dark-less world – what is next? (Conclusions and prospects for future research) -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ADDITIONAL READING.
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