Le Cornet, Charlotte
Johnson, Theron S.
Lu, Da-Lin
Kaaks, Rudolf
Fortner, Renée Turzanski
Funding for this research was provided by:
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (01ER0809)
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs - Breast Cancer Research Program (W81XWH-15-1-0035)
Article History
Received: 7 May 2019
Accepted: 10 December 2019
First Online: 14 January 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The EPIC study protocol was approved by the Ethical Committees of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty in Heidelberg. The study has been performed in accordance with the principles expressed in the Helsinki Declaration of 1996, Conventions of the Council of Europe on Human Rights and Biomedicine.
: All participants provided informed consent prior to their inclusion which can be withdrawn at any time for any reason.