Dr Isobel Barnes
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Isobel Barnes
BScH MSc PhD
Associate Professor
Isobel Barnes is a Senior Statistician in the Cancer Epidemiology Unit (CEU). She completed a PhD in statistics before joining the unit in 2010. Her research interests are in cancer screening, risk factors for cancer in different ethnic groups, as well as cervical and breast cancer epidemiology.
Isobel is a co-investigator of the AgeX trial, a clinical trial assessing the harms and benefits of extending the age range for breast screening in the UK. Isobel also works on the Million Women Study, a cohort study of women’s health, which includes over 1.3 million women.
Recent publications
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A comparative analysis of risk factor associations with interval and screen-detected breast cancers: A large UK prospective study.
Journal article
Barnes I. et al, (2024), Int J Cancer, 155, 979 - 987
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MENOPAUSAL HORMONE THERAPY AND MEASURES OF MAMMOGRAPHIC SCREENING SENSITIVITY IN THE MILLION WOMEN STUDY
Other
Thakrar D. et al, (2024), European Journal of Surgical Oncology, 50, 108077 - 108077
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A DNA barcoding framework for taxonomic verification in the Darwin Tree of Life Project.
Journal article
Twyford AD. et al, (2024), Wellcome Open Res, 9
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Diet-wide analyses for risk of colorectal cancer: prospective study of 12,250 incident cases among 543,000 women in the UK
Preprint
Papier K. et al, (2024)
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Moderate Alcohol Intake and Cancer Incidence in Women
Chapter
Gathani T. and Barnes I., (2024), 50 Landmark Papers: Every Breast Surgeon Should Know, 7 - 11