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Stevens, R.G. Comment on ‘Domestic light at night and breast cancer risk: a prospective analysis of 105 000 UK women in the Generations Study’. Br J Cancer 119, 1169 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41416-018-0058-1
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