Professor Gill Reeves
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Gill Reeves
BSc MSc PhD
Valerie Beral Professor of Epidemiology and Director, Cancer Epidemiology Unit
Gillian Reeves is the Valerie Beral Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit.
She is co-principal investigator of the Million Women Study, a very large UK cohort study of women’s health, and sits on the steering committee for several international collaborations including the Collaborative Group on Hormonal Factors in Breast Cancer, the Endogenous Hormones and Breast Cancer Collaborative Group, and the Collaborative Group on Epidemiological Studies of Ovarian Cancer.
Gillian trained originally as a statistician and completed a PhD in statistics before becoming interested in epidemiology. Her main research interests are the roles of hormonal and other risk factors in the development of female cancers. She is particularly interested in risk factors and patterns of survival for molecular subtypes of breast cancer.
Recent publications
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Diet-wide analyses for risk of colorectal cancer: prospective study of 12,251 incident cases among 542,778 women in the UK.
Papier K. et al, (2025), Nat Commun, 16
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Identifying proteomic risk factors for cancer using prospective and exome analyses of 1463 circulating proteins and risk of 19 cancers in the UK Biobank.
Papier K. et al, (2024), Nat Commun, 15
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Adiposity and risk of oesophageal cancer subtypes in the Million Women Study.
Sweetland S. et al, (2023), Int J Epidemiol, 52, 1795 - 1804
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Multimorbidity of cardiovascular disease subtypes in a prospective cohort of 1.2 million UK women.
Suh JW. et al, (2023), Open Heart, 10
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Assessment of correlation between conventional anthropometric and imaging-derived measures of body fat composition: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis of observational studies.
Mouchti S. et al, (2023), BMC Med Imaging, 23