Authors and Disclosures
Alicia K. Heath1*, David C. Muller1, Piet A. van den Brandt2, Nikos Papadimitriou3,4, Elena Critselis5,6, Marc Gunter1,4, Paolo Vineis1, Elisabete Weiderpass7, Guy Fagherazzi8,9, Heiner Boeing10, Pietro Ferrari4, Anja Olsen11, Anne Tjønneland11,12, Patrick Arveux8,13, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault8, Francesca Romana Mancini8, Tilman Kühn14, Renée Turzanski-Fortner14, Matthias B. Schulze15,16, Anna Karakatsani17,18, Paschalis Thriskos17, Antonia Trichopoulou17, Giovanna Masala19, Paolo Contiero20, Fulvio Ricceri21,22, Salvatore Panico23, Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita1,24–26, Marije F. Bakker27, Carla H. van Gils27, Karina Standahl Olsen28, Guri Skeie28, Cristina Lasheras29, Antonio Agudo30, Miguel Rodríguez-Barranco31–34, Maria-José Sánchez31–34, Pilar Amiano33,35, María-Dolores Chirlaque33,36, Aurelio Barricarte33,37,38, Isabel Drake39, Ulrika Ericson39, Ingegerd Johansson40, Anna Winkvist41,42, Tim Key43, Heinz Freisling4, Mathilde His4, Inge Huybrechts4, Sofia Christakoudi1,44, Merete Ellingjord-Dale1, Elio Riboli1, Konstantinos K. Tsilidis1,3† and Ioanna Tzoulaki1,3†
1Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, St Mary's Campus, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK. 2Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands. 3Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece. 4Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France. 5Proteomics Facility, Center for Systems Biology, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece. 6Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Science and Education, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece. 7International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France. 8Center of Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Inserm U1018, Paris-South Paris-Saclay University, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France. 9Department of Population Health, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Strassen, Luxembourg. 10Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany. 11Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark. 12University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. 13Breast and Gynaecologic Cancer Registry of Côte d'Or, Georges-François Leclerc Cancer Centre, UNICANCER, Dijon, France. 14Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. 15Department of Molecular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany. 16Institute of Nutritional Sciences, University of Potsdam, Nuthetal, Germany. 17Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece. 182nd Pulmonary Medicine Department, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "ATTIKON" University Hospital, Haidari, Greece. 19Cancer Risk Factors and Lifestyle Epidemiology Unit, Institute for Cancer Research, Prevention and Clinical Network (ISPRO), Florence, Italy. 20Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Milan, Italy. 21Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy. 22Unit of Epidemiology, Regional Health Service ASL TO3, Grugliasco, Italy. 23Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy. 24Department for Determinants of Chronic Diseases (DCD), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands. 25Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 26Department of Social & Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Pantai Valley, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 27Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 28Department of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. 29Functional Biology Department, School of Medicine, University of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain. 30Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology - ICO, Group of Research on Nutrition and Cancer, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute – IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet of Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain. 31Andalusian School of Public Health (EASP), Granada, Spain. 32Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria de Granada (ibs.GRANADA), Granada, Spain. 33CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain. 34Universidad de Granada (UGR), Granada, Spain. 35Public Health Division of Gipuzkoa, BioDonostia Research Institute, San Sebastian, Spain. 36Department of Epidemiology, Regional Health Council, IMIB-Arrixaca, Murcia University, Murcia, Spain. 37Navarra Public Health Institute, Pamplona, Spain. 38Navarra Institute for Health Research (IdiSNA), Pamplona, Spain. 39Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden. 40Department of Odontology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. 41Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. 42Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Section of Sustainable Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. 43Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. 44MRC Centre for Transplantation, King's College London, London, UK.
* Correspondence
a.heath@imperial.ac.uk
†Konstantinos K. Tsilidis and Ioanna Tzoulaki contributed equally to this work.
Authors' contributions
DCM, KTT, and IT designed the research; DCM analysed the data and performed the statistical analysis; AKH and DCM wrote the paper; KTT had the primary responsibility for final content. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.