Shape breast cancer research
Published date: Thursday 11 September 2025
Help shape breast cancer research by joining the Oxford Cancer Ethnicity and Breast Cancer Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Group.
The Cancer Epidemiology Unit (CEU) that is part of Oxford Population Health in the Medical Sciences Division at the University of Oxford, are inviting women aged 25 years or older, living in England with a personal experience of breast cancer, or women who have an interest in breast cancer, to consider joining the group. They have established a dynamic and inclusive group, made up of women from the largest ethnic groups in England: White British, Black African and Black Caribbean, Indian and Pakistani.
What is the study about?
The study aims to answer important questions about ethnicity and breast cancer. It is funded by Cancer Research UK and led by researchers at Oxford University. The study will investigate:
- why women of African, Caribbean, Indian and Pakistani backgrounds are less likely to get breast cancer but more likely to have more aggressive forms of the disease when they do
- how different risk factors vary in women from different ethnic groups, and what influence they have on the risk of getting breast cancer and the type of breast cancer diagnosed.
The results will tell us how current breast cancer polices could be informed, and where more research might be needed.
Want to get involved?
Email Kudzai or Juliet at ethnicityandbreastcancer@ndph.ox.ac.uk