Chang, Chun-Pin
La Vecchia, Carlo
Serraino, Diego
Olshan, Andrew F.
Zevallos, Jose P.
Morgenstern, Hal
Levi, Fabio
Garavello, Werner
Kelsey, Karl
McClean, Michael
Chen, Chu
Schwartz, Stephen M.
Schantz, Stimson
Yu, Guo-Pei
Boffetta, Paolo
Hashibe, Mia
Lee, Yuan-Chin Amy
Parpinel, Maria
Augustin, Livia S. A.
Turati, Federica
Zhang, Zuo-Feng
Edefonti, Valeria
Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (R03CA113157)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (R03DE016611)
Article History
Received: 18 July 2019
Revised: 28 November 2019
Accepted: 11 December 2019
First Online: 13 January 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The Informed consent and institutional review board approval were obtained within the framework of the original studies, according to the rules existing at the time of data collection. In addition, a central Institutional Review Board approval was obtained from the University of Utah, #42912.
: Not applicable.
: The dataset used and analysed during the current study is available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The INHANCE Pooled Data Project was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI) [R03CA113157], and National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) [R03DE016611]. Individual studies were funded by the following grants: (1) Italy multicenter study: Italian Association for Research on Cancer (AIRC), Italian League Against Cancer and Italian Ministry of Research; (2) North Carolina (2002–2006) study: NCI [R01CA90731–01] and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) [P30ES010126]; (3) Los Angeles study: NIH [P50CA090388, R01DA011386, R03CA077954, T32CA009142, U01CA096134 and R21ES011667] and the Alper Research Program for Environmental Genomics of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center; (4) Swiss study: Swiss League against Cancer and the Swiss Research against Cancer/Oncosuisse [KFS-700, OCS-1633]; (5) Milan (2006–2009) study: AIRC and Italian Ministry of Education [PRIN 2009 X8YCBN]; (6) Boston study: NIH [R01CA078609 and R01CA100679]; (7) Seattle (1985–1995) study: NIH [R01CA048996 and R01DE012609]; (8) MSKCC study: NIH [R01CA051845].