This is the PDF eBook version for Light Pollution as a New Risk Factor for Human Breast and Prostate Cancers By Abraham Haim, Boris A. Portnov
Table of Contents
Frontmatter
1. Introduction
1. Artificial Light and Human Temporal Organization
2. Artificial Light and its Physicochemical Properties
3. Light and Dark Cycles as a Basis of Temporal Organization
4. Biological Clock and its Entrainment by Photoperiod
5. Light at Night (LAN) Exposure and its Potential Effects on Daily Rhythms and Seasonal Disruptions
6. Melatonin: “Hormone of Darkness” and a “Jack of all Traits”
2. Light Pollution, its Known Health Effects and Impact on Energy Conservation
7. Introduction and Spread of Artificial Illumination: A Human History Retrospective
8. Biological Definition of Light Pollution
9. Light-at-Night (LAN) as a General Stressor
10. Effects of Light Pollution on Animal Daily Rhythms and Seasonality: Ecological Consequences
11. Light Pollution and Hormone-Dependent Cancers: A Summary of Accumulated Empirical Evidence
3. Light Pollution and its Potential Links to Breast and Prostate Cancers
12. Geographic Patterns of Breast and Prostate Cancers (BC&PC) Worldwide
13. Light Pollution and its Associations with BC&PC in Population-Level Studies
14. Selected Methodological Issues of LAN-BC&PC Research
15. Dark-Less World: What is Next? (Co