Hypothesis: working night shifts long hours, lack of solar light and exposure to

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Hypothesis:  working night shifts long hours, lack of solar light and exposure to industrial light as possible factors of risk for breast and prostate cancer. Their theory suggests that exposure to light at night causes a suppression of the melatonin levels have a direct impact on developing cancer.

Question: Compose an editorial opinion in which you propose a prospective cohort study that should be undertaken to further investigate the association between night shift work and cancer. Briefly describe how you would conduct a cohort study to provide additional evidence for this hypothesis. (steps of cohort)

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Cohort Study: - This study is a type of medical research used to investigate the disease causes establishing link between health outcomes and risk factors. These studies are 'prospective' studies which are planned in advanced and carried out over a future period of time. Cohort Studies are one of the methodology of 'Level of Evidence' used in clinical practice guidelines to allow to examine the strength of evidence for a particular course of treatment or action.

In the case given, the cohort study is to investigate the association between night shift work and cancer. The disease caused is cancer (breast and prostate cancer) due to exposure to industrial light, lack of solar light. The population impacted are the night shift long hours industrial workers.

To conduct study, we would have following steps: -

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