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Cancer link to shift work noted by WHO - 30/11/2007
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A scientific link has been found between working late and developing cancer.
Following research from the University of Connecticut, aol.com reports that the World Health Organisation (WHO) will classify shift work as carcinogenic.
According to government statistics from 2005, cancer accounts for around one in four UK deaths - making it, along with heart disease, one of the biggest triggers for life insurance payouts.
Justifying the classification, Vincent Cogliano, director of the Monographs program at the WHO's cancer research arm, said: "There was enough of a pattern in people who do shift work to recognize that there's an increase in cancer [rates]."
The previous study had shown that people working under artificial night lights had lower melatonin levels than usual.
A link between lower melatonin and cancer has also been established by scientists.
The changes shift work makes to your body-clock rather than the night-time conditions themselves was also cited as a possible reason for the cancer link by the US National Cancer Institute.
Spokesperson Aaron Blair said: "The problem is re-setting your body's clock - if you worked at night and stayed on it, that would be less disruptive than constantly changing shifts."
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