We thank all the participants in this study for generously helping us in this research. We also thank all the doctors, nurses and other practice staff who have kindly assisted us by collecting blood samples from participants. EPIC-Oxford is supported by Cancer Research UK (formerly the Imperial Cancer Research Fund), the Medical Research Council and the European Commission.
We thank the following staff for their contributions to EPIC-Oxford:
Emma Bailey, Krys Baker, Emily Banks, Isobel Barnes, Jude Black, Rosemary Brett, Anna Brown, Fiona Bywater, Andrew Chadwick, Louise Cotton, Jennie Cripps, Eugene Cross, Barbara Crossley, Lindsey Cutler, Kathryn Darvell, Gwyneth Davey, Sheena Dawson, Kim Dominic, Barbara Eastwood, Zoe Evans, Dave Ewart, Diane Farrow, David Forman, Cynthia Greenwood, Ninna Hallen, Phil Hannaford, Liz Hardy, Kathy Haughton, Elizabeth Hilton, Sybil Hirsch, Clare Hobson, Annie Hogg, Joy Hooley, Suzanne Howes, Clifford Kay, Kate Knox, Mark Lambourne, Nikki Langley, Maria MacGregor, Tim Oliver, June Pryce, Becky Radcliffe, Lucy Richford, Debbie Robinson, Andrew Roddam, Magdalena Rosell, Kate Sayers, Suzanne Shortland, Moya Simmonds, Hollie Thomas, Pia Verkasalo, Val Weare.
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Timothy has studied veterinary medicine, nutrition and epidemiology. His main interests are the roles of diet and sex hormones in the aetiology of cancer, particularly cancers of the breast, prostate and colon. Recent papers have shown that breast cancer risk is strongly related to the serum concentration of oestradiol, that vegetarian diets reduce mortality from ischaemic heart disease but not colorectal cancer, and that diets containing only plant proteins may reduce insulin-like growth factor-I, a growth factor that may be important in the development of several types of cancer. Timothy Key works mostly on the EPIC European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition, as the principal investigator of the Oxford cohort of 65,000 participants and the chairman of the EPIC prostate cancer group. He also co-ordinates the Endogenous Hormones and Breast Cancer Collaborative Group, which conducts pooled analyses of prospective data on endogenous hormones and breast cancer risk, and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition. He joined the Unit in 1985.
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Naomi joined the Unit in 1997 and gained a DPhil in Cancer Epidemiology in 2000. Her main area of research is the role of diet, hormones and insulin-like growth factors in cancer development, particularly cancers of the prostate, but also of cancers of the breast, ovary and endometrium. She is particularly interested in the association between blood levels of hormones on cancer risk and their genetic and environmental determinants.
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Paul Appleby is a Senior Statistician who joined CEU full-time in October 1996. He is responsible for the preparation and statistical analysis of data from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) as well as various collaborative and meta-analyses. Paul is an experienced Fortran programmer and makes extensive use of graph plotting subroutines and the Stata statistical package. He has also developed a nutrient database based on McCance & Widdowson’s, “The Composition of Foods”, which is used to estimate nutrient intakes from food frequency questionnaires or other food consumption data.
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Francesca is the Girdlers’ New Zealand HRC post-doctoral fellow for 2007-2009. She obtained her PhD in Human Nutrition at the University of Otago in 2006. Francesca’s area of research includes determining the effect of dietary fat and serum fatty acids on the risk of prostate cancer.
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Libby studied psychology at Brookes University and joined the unit in 2008 as assistant administrator for the EPIC study. She manages incoming questionnaires and food diaries, handles queries and updates the study databases. Libby is also involved in the collection of clinical data.
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Zoe works on the EPIC study and manages the collection of clinical data from disease registries and hospitals. Zoe is also a nutritional coder and is involved in coding food diaries from EPIC-Oxford participants and training staff in coding methods. Zoe also co-ordinates the follow-up questionnaires and diaries.
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Alison is a current Cancer Research UK funded DPhil student. She started in October 2007 and is currently involved in a project investigating the association between dietary fat intake and risk for developing prostate cancer.
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Liz is a nutritional epidemiologist, investigating relationships between diet, obesity and chronic disease. Current projects include analyses of the association between obesity, adiposity distribution and breast cancer in the Million Women Study aspects of diet and breast cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Nutrition and Cancer (EPIC); and fatty acids and coronary heart disease and stroke in the Oxford cohort of EPIC. She is responsible for methodological aspects of dietary assessment including working with UK Biobank to develop a short web-based dietary questionnaire. She also leads collaborative work with the Centre for Nutritional Epidemiology in Cambridge and the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism.
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Marinka joined the Unit for a five month placement starting in April 2009. She is in the final stage of her MSc. in Nutritional Epidemiology at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Besides her studies, she has been conducting research on the prediction of childhood obesity and on the validity of different measures of health care need.
During her time at CEU, Marinka will be looking at 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in vegans, vegetarians and meat-eaters within the EPIC-Oxford cohort.
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Ruth Travis is a postdoctoral epidemiologist, having obtained her DPhil in cancer epidemiology at the University of Oxford in 2005. She is interested in examining the genetic and hormonal determinants of cancer, with a particular interest in breast and prostate cancer. Ruth has also published research on the association of melatonin and soy food intake in relation to breast cancer risk. Ruth is involved in several working groups within EPIC-Europe.
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Kostas joined the unit as a Post-doctoral Fellow in September of 2008 and holds a PhD in Epidemiology and a Master’s in Biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He also has a Master’s in Public Health and a Bachelor’s in Nursing from the University of Athens in Greece. His main area of research is the role of modifiable and non-modifiable markers of inflammation and insulin resistance on colorectal neoplasia. He is currently working on projects in EPIC-Europe relating diet to prostate cancer and hormone replacement therapy to colorectal cancer. He represents the unit at the Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium and he is a member of the EPIC thyroid cancer working group.
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Lavinia joined the unit December 2004 to work as a nutritional coder and administrator in the EPIC Study. She is largely involved in coding food diaries from EPIC-Oxford participants and working on the database making appropriate amendments to these diaries. Lavinia is also involved in coordinating the 7-day food diaries and other administrative duties.
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Anna Zawadzka is the research co-ordinator for EPIC-Oxford, supporting the scientists’ research activities. Her role includes the preparation of applications to regulatory bodies and the logistics of data collection.
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