Short sleep duration combined with frequent snoring reported prior to cancer diagnosis may influence subsequent cancer survival, particularly breast cancer survival, according to a study published in the April issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. Results show that women reporting short sleep of 6 hours or less per night combined with frequent snoring of 5 nights or more per week had substantially poorer breast cancer survival (hazard ratio = 2.14) than those reporting neither.
Read the study in JCSM: Pre-diagnostic Sleep Duration and Sleep Quality in Relation to Subsequent Cancer Survival
