Chen, Yu
Wu, Fen
Saito, Eiko
Lin, Yingsong
Song, Minkyo
Luu, Hung N.
Gupta, Prakash C.
Sawada, Norie
Tamakoshi, Akiko
Shu, Xiao-Ou
Koh, Woon-Puay
Xiang, Yong-Bing
Tomata, Yasutake
Sugiyama, Kemmyo
Park, Sue K.
Matsuo, Keitaro
Nagata, Chisato
Sugawara, Yumi
Qiao, You-Lin
You, San-Lin
Wang, Renwei
Shin, Myung-Hee
Pan, Wen-Harn
Pednekar, Mangesh S.
Tsugane, Shoichiro
Cai, Hui
Yuan, Jian-Min
Gao, Yu-Tang
Tsuji, Ichiro
Kanemura, Seiki
Ito, Hidemi
Wada, Keiko
Ahn, Yoon-Ok
Yoo, Keun-Young
Ahsan, Habibul
Chia, Kee Seng
Boffetta, Paolo
Zheng, Wei
Inoue, Manami
Kang, Daehee
Potter, John D.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (R03CA150038)
Article History
Received: 1 November 2016
Accepted: 1 February 2017
First Online: 7 March 2017
Data availability
: The datasets generated and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: This work was supported by the US National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health (R03CA150038) and by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The cohorts participating in the pooled analysis were supported by the following grants: Three-Prefecture Cohort Study Aichi (Japanese Ministry of the Environment); Japan Collaborative Cohort Study (National Cancer Center Research and Development Fund, Grant-in-Aid for Cancer Research; Grant for Health Services and Grant for Comprehensive Research on Cardiovascular and Life-Style Related Diseases from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan; Grant for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan); Japan Public Health Center-Based Study 1 and 2 (National Cancer Center Research and Development Fund [23-A-31 (toku) and 26-A-2 (since 2011)]; Grant-in-Aid for Cancer Research from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan [from 1989 to 2010]); Three-Prefecture Cohort Study Miyagi, Miyagi Cohort Study and Ohsaki National Health Insurance Beneficiaries Cohort Study (Grants-in-Aid for Cancer Research and for the Third Term Comprehensive Ten-Year Strategy for Cancer Control [H21-3jigan-ippan-003], Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan); Takayama Study (National Cancer Center Research and Development Fund; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [U01HL072507]; Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences); Shanghai Cohort Study (National Institutes of Health [R01CA144034, U01CA182876]); Shanghai Men’s Health Study and Shanghai Women’s Health Study (National Institutes of Health [R37CA070867, UM1CA182910, R01CA82729, UM1CA173640]); Community-Based Cancer Screening Program (National Science Council and Department of Health, Taiwan); Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Two-Township Study (Department of Health, Taiwan [DOH80-27, DOH81-021, DOH8202-1027, DOH83-TD-015 and DOH84-TD-006]); Korea Multicenter Cancer Cohort Study (Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, South Korea [2009-0087452]; National Research Foundation of Korea [2009-0087452]); Singapore Chinese Health Study (National Institutes of Health [R01CA144034, U01CA182876]); Health Effects of Arsenic Longitudinal Study (National Institutes of Health [P42ES010349, R01CA102484, R01CA107431]); Mumbai Cohort Study (International Agency for Research on Cancer, France; Clinical Trial Service Unit, UK; World Health Organization). The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
: The authors declare that there is no duality of interest associated with this manuscript.
: YC conceived and designed the study. FW and ES analysed the data. PCG, NS, AT, X-OS, W-PK, Y-BX, YT, KS, SKP, KM, CN, YS, Y-LQ, S-LY, RW, M-HS, W-HP, MSP, ST, HC, J-MY, Y-TG, IT, SK, HI, KW, Y-OA, K-YY, HA, KSC, WZ, MI and DK contributed to acquisition of data. YL, MS, HNL, PB and JDP contributed to the interpretation of data. YC and FW wrote the manuscript. YL, MS, HNL, PB, WZ, X-OS and JDP revised the manuscript for important intellectual content. YC is the study guarantor. All authors contributed to the interpretation of data and revision of the manuscript, and approved the final version of the manuscript. YC had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
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