Fritz, Josef http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1342-3435
Jochems, Sylvia H. J.
Bjørge, Tone http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9096-5257
Wood, Angela M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7937-304X
Häggström, Christel http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6808-4405
Ulmer, Hanno http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5911-1002
Nagel, Gabriele http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6185-8535
Zitt, Emanuel
Engeland, Anders http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5620-9207
Harlid, Sophia http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8540-6891
Drake, Isabel http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6500-6310
Stattin, Pär
Stocks, Tanja http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0904-0557
Funding for this research was provided by:
World Cancer Research Fund
Vetenskapsrådet
Crafoordska Stiftelsen
Swedish Prostate Cancer Federation Märta Winkler Foundation
Cancerfonden
Forskningsrådet om Hälsa, Arbetsliv och Välfärd
Article History
Received: 7 April 2023
Revised: 22 November 2023
Accepted: 24 November 2023
First Online: 12 December 2023
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. The study was approved by research ethics committees in the respective countries (Norway: Regional Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics, no 2012/2271/REC South-East, Sweden: EPN Umeå, no 2012-354-31M and no 2015-7-32M, and EPN Lund, no 2016/564 and 2020-01571, Austria: Ethics Committee of the province of Vorarlberg, no 2006-6/2). Individual informed consent for this analysis was waived since we only used de-identified data routinely collected during the health screening process.