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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