Professor Tim Key
Contact information
+44 (0)1865 289648
Fax +44 (0)1865 289610
Research groups
- Breast Cancer
- Cancer Risk in Vegetarians Consortium
- Cardiovascular disease
- Diet and nutrition: health of vegetarians and vegans
- Dietary Protein and Stroke Consortium
- Endogenous Hormones and Breast Cancer
- Endogenous Hormones, Nutritional Biomarkers and Prostate Cancer
- EPIC
- EPIC-Prostate
- Feeding the future study (FEED)
- Health and Lifestyle
- Prostate Cancer
- Shift work and disease
Colleges
Tim Key
BVM&S, MSc, DPhil
Professor of Epidemiology & Deputy Director, CEU
- Cancer Epidemiology Unit
Tim Key has worked as a cancer epidemiologist at the University of Oxford since 1985. His main interests are the roles of diet and hormones in the aetiology of cancer, particularly cancers of the breast, prostate and colon, and the health status of vegetarians and vegans. He currently works mostly on the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC), as the principal investigator of the Oxford cohort of 60,000 subjects, including 30,000 people who don’t eat meat. He also co-ordinates the Endogenous Hormones and Breast Cancer Collaborative Group.
Recent publications
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Germline Sequencing Analysis to Inform Clinical Gene Panel Testing for Aggressive Prostate Cancer.
Journal article
Darst BF. et al, (2023), JAMA Oncol, 9, 1514 - 1524
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Dietary amino acids and risk of stroke subtypes: a prospective analysis of 356,000 participants in seven European countries.
Journal article
Tong TYN. et al, (2023), Eur J Nutr
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Associations of intakes of total protein, protein from dairy sources, and dietary calcium with risks of colorectal, breast, and prostate cancer: a prospective analysis in UK Biobank.
Journal article
Watling CZ. et al, (2023), Br J Cancer, 129, 636 - 647
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Genetic predisposition to metabolically unfavourable adiposity and prostate cancer risk: A Mendelian randomization analysis.
Journal article
Perez-Cornago A. et al, (2023), Cancer Med, 12, 16482 - 16489
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Vegans, vegetarians, fish-eaters and meat-eaters in the UK show discrepant environmental impacts: supplementary datasets
Dataset
SCARBOROUGH P. et al, (2023)