Richard Peto

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University of Oxford
Richard Doll Building
Roosevelt Drive
Headington
Oxford
OX3 7LF
United Kingdom

About Richard Peto

Eminent cancer researcher Sir Richard Peto is co-director of the Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit in Oxford. He is a leading figure in both the prevention and treatment of cancer, and helped to run a pioneering 50-year long study that further established the links between smoking and cancer

Recent publications


Adjuvant chemotherapy in oestrogen-receptor-poor breast cancer: patient-level meta-analysis of randomised trials

Lancet.2008;371 :29-40

Fibrinogen and coronary heart disease: test of causality by 'Mendelian randomization'

Int J Epidemiol.2006;35 :935-943