Associate Professor Hongchao Pan
Hongchao Pan
MSc PhD
Associate Professor
Hongchao Pan is a statistician and epidemiologist in the Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU). He holds a PhD in astrophysics from University of Leicester and an MSc in epidemiology from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Since joining CTSU in 1995, he has worked on number of large-scale randomised clinical trials (such as CAST, COMMIT/CCS2, ACST, ATLAS) and epidemiological studies.
His research interests include systemic treatments for early breast cancer, effect of obesity on breast cancer prognosis, and mortality from smoking. Dr Pan leads the meta-analysis of individual participant data of the breast cancer screening trials with mammography and the long-term follow-up of the British Doctors Study.
Recent publications
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Anthracycline and taxane containing chemotherapy for early-stage operable breast cancer: meta-analyses of 100,000 women in 86 randomised trials
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Taylor CAROLYN. et al, (2023), The Lancet
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Remdesivir and three other drugs for hospitalised patients with COVID-19: final results of the WHO Solidarity randomised trial and updated meta-analyses
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(2022), The Lancet, 399, 1941 - 1953
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Repurposed Antiviral Drugs for Covid-19 - Interim WHO Solidarity Trial Results.
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WHO Solidarity Trial Consortium None. et al, (2020), N Engl J Med
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Repurposed antiviral drugs for COVID-19 –interim WHO SOLIDARITY trial results
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PAN H. and Peto R., (2020), MedRxiv
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Smoking and risk of Parkinson's disease: 65 year follow-up of the British Doctors study
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CLARKE R. et al, (2020), Neurology