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Shift work not linked to prostate cancer: Study

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London:  While the overall risk of developing cancer may be higher among shift workers, they do not develop prostate cancer more frequently than their colleagues who work during the day, a large study involving around 28,000 employees has found.

“In this well-documented, large-scale cohort study, the incidence of prostate cancer among shift workers did not differ from that among daytime workers,” the study noted.

Shift work is widespread and it is estimated that between approximately one in five and one in six of the working population work shifts.

In 2007 the World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified shift work involving circadian disruption as a probable human carcinogen.

“Most of the evidence for this is based on animal experiment models and only a few reliable epidemiological studies. The cancer best described to date is breast cancer; this has mainly been investigated in female nurses and flight attendants,” the study pointed out.

To find out if shift work also causes prostate cancer, the researchers from University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany, and colleagues evaluated the personnel and health data of 27,828 male workers of a chemical company in Rhineland-Palatinate between 1995 and 2005.

Of all the employees, some 340 developed prostate cancer, but these included comparable numbers of shift and day workers.

The findings appeared in the journal Deutsches Arzteblatt International.

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Covid toll in Karnataka is a worrying sign for state government

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Even though Karnataka recorded the lowest number of Covid deaths in April since the virus struck first in 2020, the state is recording a rise in the positivity rate (1.50 per cent). Five people died from the Covid infections in April as per the statistics released by the state health department. In March, the positivity rate stood around 0.53 per cent. In the first week of April it came down to 0.38 per cent, second week registered 0.56 per cent, third week it rose to 0.79 per cent and by end of April the Covid positivity rate touched 1.19 per cent.

on an average 500 persons used to succumb everyday in the peak of Covid infection, as per the data. Health experts said that the mutated Coronavirus is losing its fierce characteristics as vaccination, better treatment facilities and awareness among the people have contributed to the lesser number of Covid deaths.

During the 4th and 6th of April two deaths were reported in Bengaluru, one in Gadag district on April 8, two deaths were reported from Belagavi and Vijayapura on April 30. The first Covid case was reported in the state in March 2020 and three Covid deaths were recorded in the month. In the following month 21 people became victims to the deadly virus, and May 2020 recorded 22 deaths. The death toll recorded everyday after May crossed three digits. However, the third wave, which started in January 2

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