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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. 
Latest news
Latest publications
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                Temporal trends in hospital-recorded pulmonary embolism in England before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic (2008-2024): a population-based observational study.
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Zhong X. et al, (2025), Lancet Reg Health Eur, 58
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                Trends and variation in the incidence of hip fracture in England before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic (2014-2024): a population-based observational study.
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Webster J. et al, (2025), Lancet Reg Health Eur, 57
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                Evaluation of the 4Kscore test in relation to subsequent risk of aggressive prostate cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition.
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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
 

