#346: Kathryn Bradbury, PhD – Diet & Colorectal Cancer Risk

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🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Kathryn Bradbury, PhD is a researcher at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her research has focused on examining the role of diet in the development of cancer, cardiovascular disease and other non-communicable diseases.

Dr. Bradbury spent 5 years in the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford. There, she worked as a nutritional epidemiologist on large cohort studies, including the European Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC), and the UK Biobank.

She also has expertise in traditional and web-based dietary assessment methods, nutritional epidmiology (including prospective analyses of large cohort studies), biomarkers of nutritional status (including folate), blood lipids, the role of diet in the development of gastrointestinal cancers, and vegetarian nutrition.

Show Notes: https://sigmanutrition.com/episode346

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0:00.0	Hello, you are listening to Sigma Nutrition Radio. We bring you conversations about nutritional science. And as always, I'm your host, Danny Lennon.
0:23.9	This is episode 346 of the podcast. And today I'm going to be having a conversation with Dr. Catherine
0:33.0	Bradbury, who is a researcher at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and her research has focused on examining the role of diet in the development of cancer, as well as other non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease.
0:49.6	And previous to returning to New Zealand, Dr. Bradbury spent a number of years working in the
0:57.4	Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford. And while she was there, she was part of
1:04.0	a number of the large cohort studies that were being done. Many that you will have heard
1:09.3	probably referenced on the podcast before, including
1:11.8	the European Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition, or Epic, and the UK Biobank. And so her work
1:19.9	there as a nutritional epidemiologist was working with these large cohorts to try and tease out
1:25.9	some of these diet disease relationships.
1:28.5	And in recent years, much of that has centered around diet and its role in colorectal cancer,
1:36.2	specifically as well as in other cancers.
1:38.8	As always, we will have show notes available over on the website.
1:43.2	So if you go to sigmanutrition.com
1:45.8	slash episode three, four, six, you'll be able to find an overview of this episode,
1:52.9	links to specific papers that we reference, any background materials or links relevant
1:58.3	to Dr. Bradbury's background, as well as a transcript to this and
2:03.8	previous episodes of the podcast. And you can find that format for all our episodes. If you want to find
2:09.5	the show notes, it's a Sigma Nutrition.com slash episode and then type in the number of the
2:15.1	episode you are listening to.
2:23.7	So if you want our show notes today, that's sigmaatrician.com slash episode three, four, six.
2:29.7	If you are new to the podcast and you end up enjoying this discussion and you want further deep dive discussions into nutritional science topics, then make sure you hit subscribe on whatever app you are listening on.
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