Graveyard Shift Can Cause Cancer?

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If you work the graveyard shift, you might be more prone to get cancer. It was a theory at one time and is now gaining accpetance and many feel that it can be directly linked to cancer. The late shift is the hours for 20 percent of the working population in the modern countries. This new information could affect millions and millions of people that working in the dark hours of day and sleeping the light hours of day. If you have a 3rd shift job right now, you might want to investigate further into this for your self.

In recent years, these studies have found that women that work the late shift are more likely to get breast cancer. Also the tests points to the same thing in animals too. Animals that seem to stay awake in the night hours grow tumours more and they die quicker as opposed to the animals that are awake in the daylight hours. The American Cancer Society said it would most likely add shift work to its list of “known and probable carcinogens” when the IARC makes its reclassification.

They are still more tests that need to be run to prove this information further, but the evidence coming out right now, does support that the 3rd shift jobs cause cancer. I have worked several 3rd shift jobs in my life. I really enjoy being up at night and sleeping during the day. When you get your body use to these conditions, I think its harder to go back to the normal way of sleeping, than it was to train your body to stay up all night. I think this latest news will get a lot of workers asking if 1st shift is available.