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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
£10 million for cancer epidemiology studies
28 February 2020
Different foods linked to different types of stroke
24 February 2020
Obesity and dementia in women
19 December 2019
Latest publications
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Body Mass Index and cause-specific hospital admissions and costs: the UK Biobank Cohort Study
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O’Halloran R. et al, (2020), Obesity
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Body size and composition, physical activity and sedentary time in relation to endogenous hormones in pre- and post-menopausal women: findings from the UK Biobank
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Tin Tin S. et al, (2020), International Journal of Cancer
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Association of FADS1/2 Locus Variants and Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids With Aortic Stenosis.
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Chen HY. et al, (2020), JAMA Cardiol
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Insulin-like growth factor-1, insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-3, and breast cancer risk: observational and Mendelian randomization analyses with ∼430 000 women.
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Murphy N. et al, (2020), Ann Oncol
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Genome-wide Association Analysis in Humans Links Nucleotide Metabolism to Leukocyte Telomere Length.
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Li C. et al, (2020), Am J Hum Genet, 106, 389 - 404