Welcome
The Cancer Epidemiology Unit is part of the Nuffield Department of Population Health of the Medical Sciences Division at the University of Oxford.
With over 60 staff and research students, the Unit specialises in large-scale and collaborative studies of lifestyle and genetic risk factors for cancer, and for other common diseases of adult life such as heart disease, fractures and dementia. Our aim is to provide reliable evidence to help answer outstanding questions about public health, and the health of individuals.
Latest news
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Meat consumption, health and the environment
25 July 2018
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Women with disabilities may miss out on cancer screening
29 September 2017
Latest publications
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The UK Biobank resource with deep phenotyping and genomic data
Journal article
MARCHINI J. et al, (2018), Nature
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Circulating insulin-like growth factor I in relation to melanoma risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition.
Journal article
Bradbury KE. et al, (2018), Int j cancer
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Dietary patterns associated with hypertension risk among adults in Thailand: 8-year findings from the Thai Cohort Study.
Journal article
Shi Z. et al, (2018), Public health nutr, 1 - 7
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SOCIAL ISOLATION IN RELATION TO VASCULAR DISEASE INCIDENCE AND MORTALITY AMONG 325,000 UK WOMEN; A PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY
Conference paper
Smith RW. et al, (2018), Journal of epidemiology and community health, 72, A78 - A78
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Adiposity and breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women: Results from the UK Biobank prospective cohort.
Journal article
Guo W. et al, (2018), Int j cancer, 143, 1037 - 1046