- Title
- The association between smartphone use and breast cancer risk among Taiwanese women: a case-control study
- Creator
- Shih, Ya-Wen; Hung, Chin-Sheng; Huang, Cheng-Chiao; Chou, Kuei-Ru; Niu, Shu-Fen; Chan, Sally; Tsai, Hsiu-Ting
- Relation
- Cancer Management and Research Vol. 12, p. 10799-10807
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CMAR.S267415
- Publisher
- Dove Medical Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Introduction: Breast cancer is a common malignancy worldwide. Smartphones have gradually become indispensable to our modern lives and have already changed lifestyles of human beings. To our best knowledge, no study has investigated the relationship between smartphone use and breast cancer. This case-control study purposely investigated the relationship between smartphone use and breast cancer risk. Materials and Methods: This was a case-control study comprising 894 healthy controls and 211 patients with breast cancer. All participants were asked to respond to standard questionnaires to collect information on sleep quality, smartphone addiction, and smartphone use. Results: Participants with smartphone addiction had a significantly higher 1.43-fold risk of breast cancer. Individuals with the habitual behavior of smartphone use > 4.5 minutes before bedtime had a significantly increased 5.27-fold risk of breast cancer compared to those who used a smartphone for ≤ 4.5 minutes before bedtime. Additionally, a closer distance between the smartphone and the breasts when using the smartphone exhibited a significantly increased 1.59-fold risk. Participants who carried their smartphone near their chest or waist-abdomen area had significantly increased 5.03-fold and 4.06-fold risks of breast cancer, respectively, compared to those who carried the smartphone below the waist. Moreover, there was a synergistic effect of smartphone addiction and smartphone use of > 4.5 minutes before bedtime which increased the breast cancer risk. Conclusion: Excessive smartphone use significantly increased the risk of breast cancer, particularly for participants with smartphone addiction, a close distance between the breasts and smartphone, and the habit of smartphone use before bedtime.
- Subject
- smartphone addiction; breast cancer; women; sleep quality; SDG 3; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1450780
- Identifier
- uon:44015
- Identifier
- ISSN:1179-1322
- Rights
- © 2020 Shih et al. This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).
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- eng
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