Professor Tim Key
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Tim Key
BVM&S, MSc, DPhil
Professor of Epidemiology
- Cancer Epidemiology Unit
Tim Key's 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 also co-ordinates the Endogenous Hormones and Breast Cancer Collaborative Group.
Tim Key has worked as a cancer epidemiologist at the University of Oxford since 1985.
Recent publications
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Perturbations in the blood metabolome up to a decade before prostate cancer diagnosis in 4387 matched case-control sets from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition.
Journal article
Grenville ZS. et al, (2024), Int J Cancer
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Food biodiversity and gastrointestinal cancer risk in nine European countries: Analysis within a prospective cohort study
Journal article
Huybrechts I. et al, (2024), European Journal of Cancer, 210
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Identifying proteomic risk factors for overall, aggressive, and early onset prostate cancer using Mendelian Randomisation and tumour spatial transcriptomics.
Journal article
Desai TA. et al, (2024), EBioMedicine, 105
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Circulating free insulin-like growth factor-I and prostate cancer: a case-control study nested in the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition.
Journal article
Cheng TS. et al, (2024), BMC Cancer, 24
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Assessing Performance of Contemporary Plant-Based Diets against the UK Dietary Guidelines: Findings from the Feeding the Future (FEED) Study
Journal article
Lawson I. et al, (2024), Nutrients, 16, 1336 - 1336