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Breast Cancer Prevention
Exercise-induced melatonin did not have preventive effect against breast cancer
January 26th, 2006
Increased exercise-induced melatonin was not proven to have a preventive effect against breast cancer. According to a recently published article in the American Journal of Epidemiology, "Melatonin may protect against breast cancer. Light and other factors influence melatonin, but the evidence is limited." J.A. Knight and colleagues conducted a study "to determine factors related to melatonin." "Women volunteers recruited in Toronto, Canada, from 2002 to 2004 collected urine for three nights (winter and summer), took periodic light measurements, and recorded exposures in a diary. The relation of each variable to...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-01-26)
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