Antoniussen, Christian S.
Ibsen, Daniel B.
Olsen, Anja
Overvad, Kim
Vasson, Fanélie
Severi, Gianluca
Dragic, Dzevka
Truong, Thérèse
Fortner, Renée T.
Le Cornet, Charlotte
Schulze, Matthias B.
Di Girolamo, Chiara
Pala, Valeria
Doccioli, Chiara
Agudo, Antonio
Guevara, Marcela
Tin Tin, Sandar
Jackson, Isobel G.
Gunter, Marc J.
Dossus, Laure
Ferrari, Pietro
Dahm, Christina C. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0481-2893
Funding for this research was provided by:
Aarhus Universitet
Article History
Received: 17 September 2025
Accepted: 22 May 2026
First Online: 19 June 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Where authors are identified as personnel of the International Agency for Research on Cancer / World Health Organization, the authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this article and they do not necessarily represent the decisions, policy or views of the International Agency for Research on Cancer / World Health Organization.
: All participants provided informed consent upon participation, and the study was approved by ethics committees in each country and the ethics committees of the IARC. Thee study was conducted in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) (Regulation EU 2026/679 of May 25, 2018) and local regulations implemented by the Faculty of Health at Aarhus University, Denmark. Therefore, participant counts < 5 in descriptive tables are not displayed and denoted with “NR”.
: Generative artificial intelligence (ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot) was used for language refinement and proof reading of parts of the manuscript as well as to refine R code for the statistical analysis. All suggestions were evaluated by the authors.