| Autor: |
Archana McEligot, Thomas G. Shanks, Cedric F. Garland, Frank C. Garland, Edward D. Gorham |
| Rok vydání: |
1999 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Biologic Effects of Light 1998 ISBN: 9781461372967 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-1-4615-5051-8_41 |
| Popis: |
Age-adjusted mortality rates of colorectal [1] breast [2, 3] ovarian [4] and prostate cancer [5-7] rise with increasing distance from the equator and tend to be highest in areas with the least winter sunlight. Distinctive changes in mortality rates from colon cancer occur in migrants from low-risk to high-risk areas of the world [8]. Breast cancer rates in the daughters of women who migrate across approximately 10 degrees of more of latitude differ dramatically from rates in the parents’ country of origin, and, in general, from rates in the mother [9]. These and other findings suggest that both diseases have a largely environmental or dietary etiology [8,9]. Mortality rates from both cancers rise in migrants from low to high latitudes and decline with migration from high to low latitudes. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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