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Isobel Barnes
BScH MSc PhD
Associate Professor
Isobel Barnes is a Senior Statistician in the Cancer Epidemiology Unit. 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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Ovarian cancer survival by stage, histotype, and pre-diagnostic lifestyle factors, in the prospective UK Million Women Study.
Journal article
Gaitskell K. et al, (2021), Cancer Epidemiol, 76
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Social isolation and incident coronary heart disease in two large UK prospective studies
Conference paper
Smith R. et al, (2021), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, 50, 220 - 220
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Ethnicity and the tumour characteristics of invasive breast cancer in over 116,500 women in England.
Journal article
Gathani T. et al, (2021), Br J Cancer, 125, 611 - 617
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Ethnicity and the surgical management of early invasive breast cancer in over 164 000 women.
Journal article
Gathani T. et al, (2021), Br J Surg, 108, 528 - 533
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Social isolation and risk of heart disease and stroke: analysis of two large UK prospective studies.
Journal article
Smith RW. et al, (2021), Lancet Public Health