Cancer epidemiology, prevention, and toxicology

Ahmedin Jemal

Ahmedin Jemal is a cancer epidemiologist and senior vice president at the American Cancer Society, known for national cancer statistics and findings on colorectal and lung cancer in young adults.

Amy Berrington de Gonzalez is a cancer epidemiologist who studies cancer risks from ionizing radiation, leading the UK Pediatric CT Scans Cohort, the first study linking childhood CT scans to cancer risk.

Andrew G. Renehan

Andrew G. Renehan is a British colorectal surgeon-scientist, Professor of Cancer Studies and Surgery at the University of Manchester, known for research linking obesity, diabetes, and cancer risk.

Andrew J. Dannenberg

Andrew J. Dannenberg is an American physician-scientist at Weill Cornell Medicine who established COX-2 as a target for cancer prevention; in 2023 the Office of Research Integrity found misconduct.

Ángel Roffo

Ángel Honorio Roffo (1881–1947) was an Argentine physician and experimental oncologist who founded Latin America's first cancer institute in Buenos Aires and showed that tobacco tar produces cancer.

Anthony J. Swerdlow

Anthony J. Swerdlow is a cancer epidemiologist and Professor at the Institute of Cancer Research since 2000, known for twin studies and the Generations Study of breast cancer.

Antoine Lacassagne

Antoine Lacassagne (1884–1971) was a French physician and biologist who pioneered radiobiology at the Institut du Radium, Paris, and showed in 1932 that hormones could produce breast cancer.

Arthur Schatzkin

Arthur Schatzkin (1948–2011) was an American nutritional epidemiologist who led the National Cancer Institute's Nutritional Epidemiology Branch and directed the Polyp Prevention Trial and the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study.

Barbara Ann Gilchrest

Barbara Ann Gilchrest is an American dermatologist known for research on how ultraviolet radiation damages and pigments skin, and longtime Chair of Dermatology at Boston University.

Béatrice Secretan

Béatrice Secretan, also known as Béatrice Lauby-Secretan, is a Swiss cancer epidemiologist at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, leading the IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention since 2014.

Brian MacMahon

Brian MacMahon (1923–2007) was a cancer epidemiologist who chaired the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health from 1958 to 1989 and wrote its standard textbook.

Carlo La Vecchia

Carlo La Vecchia is an Italian medical statistician and cancer epidemiologist at the Mario Negri Institute and University of Milan, known for large case-control studies quantifying cancer risk factors.

Chyke A. Doubeni

Chyke A. Doubeni is an American family physician and clinical epidemiologist known for colorectal cancer screening research, a 2010 Presidential Early Career Award, and leadership as Ohio State's Chief Health Equity Officer.

Cristian Tomasetti

Cristian Tomasetti is an Italian-born biostatistician and cancer researcher known for the 2015 "bad luck" paper with Bert Vogelstein and for liquid biopsy blood tests for early cancer detection.

David L. Eaton

David L. Eaton is an American biochemical toxicologist at the University of Washington whose research explained how the body activates and detoxifies cancer-causing chemicals, especially aflatoxin B1.

Denis Parsons Burkitt

Denis Parsons Burkitt (1911–1993) was a British surgeon who worked in Uganda, mapped the childhood cancer Burkitt lymphoma across Africa, and later campaigned for dietary fiber.

E. Robert Greenberg

E. Robert Greenberg is an American physician-scientist in cancer prevention epidemiology, an emeritus Dartmouth professor who led randomized trials testing whether beta carotene, antioxidant vitamins, and calcium prevent cancer.

Edward L. Giovannucci

Edward L. Giovannucci is an American physician and nutritional cancer epidemiologist, Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Harvard, known for research on diet and cancer.

Elio Ríboli

Elio Ríboli is a physician-epidemiologist at Imperial College London who designed and led EPIC, a European cancer and nutrition study of over half a million people.

Ernest Kennaway

Sir Ernest Laurence Kennaway (1881–1958) was a British experimental pathologist in London who identified the first pure chemical carcinogens, including benzo(a)pyrene, isolated from coal tar in 1933.

Eva Negri

Eva Negri is an Italian cancer epidemiologist, associate professor at the University of Bologna since 2021, who co-leads the annual European cancer mortality prediction papers in Annals of Oncology.

Flora E. van Leeuwen

Flora E. van Leeuwen, known in the Netherlands as Floor van Leeuwen, is a Dutch cancer epidemiologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam who has researched cancer risk factors there since 1981.

Gerald N. Wogan

Gerald N. Wogan (1930–2021) was an MIT toxicologist who established aflatoxin, a mold-produced food contaminant, as a cause of liver cancer and shaped FDA aflatoxin limits.

Graham A. Colditz

Graham A. Colditz is an Australian-born cancer epidemiologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, known for linking postmenopausal hormone therapy to breast cancer risk and for breast cancer risk prediction models.

Hans‐Olov Adami

Hans-Olov Adami is a Swedish physician and cancer epidemiologist, trained as a surgeon, who led Karolinska Institutet's Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics from 1997 to 2008.

Henry C. Pitot

Henry C. Pitot (1930–2021) was an American physician-scientist who spent his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for multistage liver carcinogenesis and the Min mouse model of intestinal cancer.

Henry M. Lemon

Henry M. Lemon (1915–1997) was an American physician-scientist who studied estrogen metabolism and breast cancer risk, and was the first director of the Eppley Institute in Nebraska.

Hermann Brenner

Hermann Brenner is a German physician and cancer epidemiologist at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, known for colorectal cancer screening research and the period-analysis method.

Izrael Hieger

Izrael Hieger (1901–1986) was a biochemist at the Royal Cancer Hospital, later the Royal Marsden, from 1924 to 1966, co-authoring the 1933 isolation of benzo[a]pyrene from coal tar.