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Welcome

The Cancer Epidemiology Unit (CEU) is part of Oxford Population Health in the Medical Sciences Division at the University of Oxford.

CEU has over 50 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. We aim to provide reliable evidence that answers outstanding questions about public health, and the health of individuals.

If you are interested in accessing data from the Million Women Study, please visit this data access page; if you would like to access data from EPIC-Oxford, please visit this data access page. 

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