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 and co-ordinates the Endogenous Hormones and Breast Cancer Collaborative Group.

Recent publications

Physical activity in relation to circulating hormone concentrations in 117,100 men in UK Biobank.
Journal article

Watts EL. et al, (2021), Cancer Causes Control
Dietary fatty acids, macronutrient substitutions and food sources and incidence of coronary heart disease: findings from the EPIC-CVD case-cohort study across nine European countries
Journal article

KEY T. et al, (2021), Journal of the American Heart Association
Associations Between Macronutrients From Different Dietary Sources and Serum Lipids in 24 639 UK Biobank Study Participants.
Journal article

Kelly RK. et al, (2021), Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol
Urinary Melatonin in Relation to Breast Cancer Risk: Nested Case-Control Analysis in the DOM Study and Meta-analysis of Prospective Studies.
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Wong ATY. et al, (2021), Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, 30, 97 - 103
Meat intake and cancer risk: prospective analyses in UK Biobank.
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Knuppel A. et al, (2020), Int J Epidemiol, 49, 1540 - 1552

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