Professor Tim Key
Contact information
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Research groups
- An investigation into cancer risk factors and mechanisms: a DPhil in molecular epidemiology
- An investigation into cancer risk factors and mechanisms: a DPhil in molecular epidemiology
- An investigation into cancer risk factors and mechanisms: a DPhil in cancer and molecular epidemiology
- An investigation into the circulating proteome and cancer prognosis: a DPhil in cancer and genetic epidemiology
- Cancer Epidemiology Unit (CEU)
- Diet and gastrointestinal health
- Diet and risk of site-specific cancers in the Million Women Study: prospective research including 800,000 women
- Musculoskeletal health of vegetarians
- Plant-based diets and cancer risk
- Prostate cancer epidemiology
- The molecular epidemiology of prostate cancer
Colleges
Tim Key
BVM&S, MSc, DPhil
Professor of Epidemiology & Deputy Director, CEU
- Cancer Epidemiology Unit
- MSc in Global Health Science module 9 lead: Nutritional Epidemiology
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 is also chairman of the EPIC prostate cancer group, co-ordinates the Endogenous Hormones and Breast Cancer Collaborative Group, and is a member of the UK Department of Health’s Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition.
Recent publications
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Dietary fatty acids and endometrial cancer risk within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition.
Journal article
Yammine SG. et al, (2023), BMC Cancer, 23
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Associations between types and sources of dietary carbohydrates and cardiovascular disease risk: a prospective cohort study of UK Biobank participants
Journal article
KEY T. et al, (2023), BMC Medicine
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Intakes of major food groups in China and UK: results from 100,000 adults in the China Kadoorie biobank and UK biobank.
Journal article
Papier K. et al, (2022), Eur J Nutr
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Pan-cancer analysis of pre-diagnostic blood metabolite concentrations in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition.
Journal article
Breeur M. et al, (2022), BMC Med, 20
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Circulating free testosterone and risk of aggressive prostate cancer: Prospective and Mendelian randomisation analyses in international consortia.
Journal article
Watts EL. et al, (2022), Int J Cancer, 151, 1033 - 1046