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 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
Professor Tim Key elected to the Academia Europaea
18 September 2023
Latest publications
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Smith-Byrne K. et al, (2025), Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev
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Hypertension in pregnancy and in midlife and the risk of dementia: prospective study of 1.3 million UK women
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FLOUD S. et al, (2025), Alzheimer’s and Dementia
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Histological types of invasive breast cancer in 830,000 women diagnosed in England during 1988-2016
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PROBERT J. et al, (2025), The Journal of Pathology: Clinical Research
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Ogamba CF. et al, (2025), Scientific Reports, 15
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Liu B. et al, (2025), J Natl Cancer Inst