Researchers warned that women who sleep less than 6 hours a night is her risk of breast cancer by more than 60%. Scientists believe that sleep affects the production of intermittent hormone vital to the body Milatomin called "melatonin", pointing out that it could play an important role In the prevention of breast cancer.
The study, published in the "British Journal of Cancer," the strongest evidence so far to get enough sleep is essential for the prevention of breast cancer.
The newspaper "Daily Mail" on Monday that scientists in Japan have followed the health status of about 24 thousand women for eight years, found that women sleep less than 6 hours a night over her breast cancer risk by 62%, compared to women sleep for seven hours for the same period , Also found that women who sleep nine hours a night is unlikely to get such tumors.
In this context, said Dr. Masako Kakizaki "We found that there is an important relationship between sleep and cancer," adding that "women who slept six hours or less increased the risk of their significantly."
It is noteworthy that about 40 thousand women develop breast cancer in Britain each year, the disease affects one out of 9 women at some point in their life cycle.