Light Pollution as a New Risk Factor for Human Breast and Prostate Cancers
Humans are diurnal organisms whose biological clock and temporal organization depend on natural light/dark cycles. Changes in the photoperiod are a signal for seasonal acclimatization of physiological and immune systems as well as behavioral patterns. The invention of electrical light bulbs created...
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
