Table 3.
Items selected according to the established inclusion criteria.
| Title | Date | Language | Study Type | Abstract | Meets Objective | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Does current scientific evidence support a link between light at night and breast cancer among female night-shift nurses? Review of evidence and implications for occupational and environmental health nurses [2]. | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | ☺ |
| Risk Factors for Breast Cancer, Including Occupational Exposures [3]. | YES | YES | NO | YES | YES | ☹ |
| Case–control study of shift-work and breast cancer risk in Danish nurses, Impact of shift systems [4]. | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | ☺ |
| Circadian gene expression in peripheral blood leukocytes of rotating night shift nurses [5]. | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | ☺ |
| Night Work and Breast Cancer Risk Among Norwegian Nurses: Assessment by Different Exposure Metrics [6]. | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | ☺ |
| Mechanisms of breast cancer risk in shift workers, Association of telomere shortening with the duration and intensity of night work [7]. | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | ☺ |
| Breast Cancer Among Nurses Is the Intensity of Night Work Related to Hormone Receptor Status? [8] | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | ☺ |
| Night shift work and other determinants of oestradiol, testosterone, and dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate among middle-aged nurses and midwives [9] | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | ☺ |
| Night-shift work and breast and prostate cancer risk: updating the evidence from epidemiological studies [10] | YES | YES | YES | YES | NO | ☹ |
| Night-shift work and risk of breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis [11] | YES | YES | YES | YES | NO | ☹ |
| Rotating Night Shift Work and Mammographic Density [12] | YES | YES | YES | YES | NO | ☹ |
| Rotating night shift work and polymorphism of genes important for the regulation of circadian rhythm [13] | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | ☺ |
| Rotating night shift work and risk of breast cancer in the nurses’ health studies [14] | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | ☺ |
| Systematic review of shift work and nurses’ health [15] | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | ☺ |
| Association between light at night, melatonin secretion, sleep deprivation, and the internal clock: Health impacts and mechanisms of circadian disruption [16] | YES | YES | NO | YES | YES | ☹ |
| Does night work increase the risk of breast cancer? A systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological studies [20] | YES | YES | YES | YES | NO | ☹ |
| Rotating-shift nurses after a day off: peripheral clock genes’ expression, urinary melatonin, and serum 17-β-oestradiol levels [21]. | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | ☺ |
| Shift work and cancer risk: Potential mechanistic roles of circadian disruption, light at night, and sleep deprivation [22] | YES | YES | NO | YES | YES | ☹ |
| Shift work and cancer: State of Science and Practical Consequences [23] | YES | YES | YES | YES | NO | ☹ |
| Shift work, circadian gene variants and risk of breast cancer [24] | YES | YES | YES | YES | NO | ☹ |
| Sleep interruption associated with house staff work schedules alters circadian gene expression [25] | YES | YES | NO | YES | YES | ☹ |
| The Influence of Light at Night Exposure on Melatonin Levels among Canadian Rotating Shift Nurses [26] | YES | YES | YES | YES | NO | ☹ |
| Total and Cause-Specific Mortality of U.S. Nurses Working Rotating Night Shifts [27] | YES | YES | YES | YES | NO | ☹ |
| Sleep duration, nightshift work, and the timing of meals and urinary levels of 8-isoprostane and 6-sulfatoxymelatonin in Japanese women [28] | YES | YES | YES | YES | NO | ☹ |
| Night Shift Work, DNA Methylation and Telomere Length: An Investigation on Hospital Female Nurses [29] | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | ☺ |
| TOTAL EXCLUDED RECORDS: 13 | ||||||
| TOTAL SELECTED ARTICLES: 12 | ||||||
☺ = Phase overcome/☹ = Phase not overcome.