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The Cancer Epidemiology Unit (CEU) is part of the Nuffield Department of Population Health in the Medical Sciences Division at the University of Oxford.
CEU has 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. 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 our data access page.
Latest news
Studying prostate cancer risk in the UK Biobank
7 December 2020
Latest publications
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Review of the risk of cancer following low and moderate doses of sparsely ionising radiation received in early life in groups with individually estimated doses
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Little MP. et al, (2022), Environment International, 159, 106983 - 106983
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Ovarian cancer survival by stage, histotype, and pre-diagnostic lifestyle factors, in the prospective UK Million Women Study.
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Gaitskell K. et al, (2021), Cancer Epidemiol, 76
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Meat intake is associated with a higher risk of ulcerative colitis in a large European prospective cohort study
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Dong C. and TONG YNT., (2021), Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis
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Understanding breast cancer as a global health concern
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Wilkinson L. and Gathani T., (2021), The British Journal of Radiology
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on breast cancer referrals and diagnoses in 2020 and 2021: a population-based study in England
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Gathani T. et al, (2021), British Journal of Surgery