Paul McGale
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Paul McGale
Medical Statistician
- Clinical Trial Service Unit
Paul is a medical statistician mainly working on case-control and cohort studies of side-effects of radiotherapy for breast cancer as well as meta-analyses of randomised trials of treatments for breast cancer.
Other work has included investigations into health effects of prolonged tobacco smoking and also burden of disease caused by exposure to residential radon.
Recent publications
Effects of ovarian ablation or suppression on breast cancer recurrence and survival: patient-level meta-analysis of 15 000 women in 23 randomised trials
Journal article
Bradley R. et al, (2026), Lancet, 407, 1699 - 1711
Causes of excess non-lymphoma death in 58,000 patients with DLBCL diagnosed during 1997-2020 and followed for up to 25 years.
Journal article
Challenger A. et al, (2026), Blood Adv
Histological types of invasive breast cancer in 830,000 women diagnosed in England during 1988–2016
Conference paper
Probert J. et al, (2025), Journal of Pathology Clinical Research, 11
Second cancers in 475 000 women with early invasive breast cancer diagnosed in England during 1993-2016: population based observational cohort study.
Journal article
McGale P. et al, (2025), BMJ, 390
Radiotherapy to regional nodes in early breast cancer: an individual patient data meta-analysis of 14 324 women in 16 trials.
Journal article
Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group (EBCTCG) ., (2023), Lancet, 402, 1991 - 2003