(PDF) Light Pollution as a New Risk Factor for Human Breast and Prostate Cancers By Abraham Haim

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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