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The results of systematic on this topic is contradictory. This systematic review and meta-analysis, therefore, aimed to update the current evidence regarding the relationship between night-shift work duration and breast cancer risk.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus as well as reference list of included studies were searched until December 19, 2020. Observational case\u2013control or cohort studies investigating the relationship between the duration of night-shift work and breast cancer in women were included, which all quantified night-shift work exposure. All statistical analyses were done by Stata version 11.2.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Our literature search was resulted in retrieval of 4854 publications from which 26 eligible studies with 1,313,348 participants were included in the meta-analyses. The pooled relative risk (RR) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of breast cancer for short-term night-shift workers (&lt;\u200910\u00a0years) was 1.13 (95% CI 1.03\u20131.24, p\u2009=\u20090.008, I<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\u2009=\u200971.3%), and for long-term night-shift workers (\u2265\u200910\u00a0years) was 1.08 (95% CI 0.99\u20131.17, p\u2009=\u20090.09, I<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\u2009=\u200942.2%), with moderate to substantial statistical heterogeneity observed in both analyses. The results of subgroup analysis showed that flight attendants with long overnight flights were at an elevated risk of breast cancer, but unmeasured confounders limited these results. 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