A new U.S. study has found that exposure to city lights might increase the risk of breast cancer, reports said on Monday.
Peter James, Assistant Professor of Population Medicine at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, and his colleagues, tracked almost 110,000 U.S. women, followed as part of a study of nurses from 1989-2013.
The study found a direct relationship between a woman’s neighborhood nighttime light level before diagnosis and her later risk of developing breast cancer: the higher the light level, the higher the risk, an AP report said.
“In our modern industrialised society, artificial lighting is nearly ubiquitous.
“Our results suggest that this widespread exposure to outdoor lights during nighttime hours could represent a novel risk factor for breast cancer,’’ a Harvard news release quoted James as saying.
The study, published in August on the journal…
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