A recent study, by the World Health Organization (WHO), revealed the fact that working in night shifts may cause serious problems including an enhanced risk of cancer in humans. Women are at specific risk in such an environment of working in the night shifts.

The study findings bring out the fact that after a prolonged exposure to the night shifts women have higher risks of developing breast and colon cancer. Men are equally at risk with the night shift working conditions. Men have more probability to suffer from the prostate cancer.

Almost 15 to 20% of the working class population in the United States and the Europe is undergoing a night shift working schedule. Such night shifts working system is very much prevalent in some specific business sectors including healthcare, transportation, communication, leisure, and hospitality industries.

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Colon Cancer is a disease afflicting humans and is a malignant tumor, which arises from the inner wall of the large intestine (colon), or the rectum (which is the end of the colon). It is also referred to as colorectal cancer. In the United States, it is the third leading cause of cancer in males, and fourth in females.

The human colon is a tube shaped muscular organ which is about four feet in length, extending from the small bowel to the anus. It has three main functions, which are digest and absorb nutrients from the food, to concentrate fecal material by absorbing fluids, and store fecal material and control its evacuation.

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Colon Cancer and Liver Disease

Colon Cancer is the hyperproliferation of abnormal cells or cancer cellular mass in the actual colon. As the word cancer implies, colon cancer is a malignant and metastasic condition the may evade other organs.

Our colon is a muscular, tube-shaped organ measuring approximately 4 feet long. It goes on from the end of your small intestine to your anus, perverting and whirling through the abdomen (belly).

Cancer is a malignant tumor that spreads and affects other organs. Once cancer reaches the blood vessels or lymph nodes, it evades the nearby organ then and if the abnormal proliferation of cells is left untreated. Cancers are a life-threatening condition because of their uninhibited growth. They overpower and devastate healthy cells, tissues, and by taking their space, oxygen, and nutrients. Most colon cancers are adenocarcinomas—tumors that grow from the glands lining inside the colon wall. Oftentimes, colon cancer is referred to colorectal cancer since the rectum is the end point of the colon

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