Aleksandrova, Krasimira
Reichmann, Robin
Kaaks, Rudolf
Jenab, Mazda
Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. Bas
Dahm, Christina C.
Eriksen, Anne Kirstine
Tjønneland, Anne
Artaud, Fanny
Boutron-Ruault, Marie-Christine
Severi, Gianluca
Hüsing, Anika
Trichopoulou, Antonia
Karakatsani, Anna
Peppa, Eleni
Panico, Salvatore
Masala, Giovanna
Grioni, Sara
Sacerdote, Carlotta
Tumino, Rosario
Elias, Sjoerd G.
May, Anne M.
Borch, Kristin B.
Sandanger, Torkjel M.
Skeie, Guri
Sánchez, Maria-Jose
Huerta, José María
Sala, Núria
Gurrea, Aurelio Barricarte
Quirós, José Ramón
Amiano, Pilar
Berntsson, Jonna
Drake, Isabel
van Guelpen, Bethany
Harlid, Sophia
Key, Tim
Weiderpass, Elisabete
Aglago, Elom K.
Cross, Amanda J.
Tsilidis, Konstantinos K.
Riboli, Elio
Gunter, Marc J.
Funding for this research was provided by:
German Cancer Research Center
Kræftens Bekæmpelse
Cancer Research UK (C864/A14136 to EPIC-Norfolk; C8221/A19170 to EPIC-Oxford)
Health and Medical Research Fund
World Cancer Research Fund
Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro
Ligue Contre le Cancer
European Commission
Deutsche Krebshilfe
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (grant AL 1784/3-1)
Centre International de Recherche sur le Cancer
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale
Vetenskapsrådet
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Instituto de Salud Carlos III (PI13/00061 to Granada; PI13/01162 to EPIC-Murcia)
Institut Gustave Roussy
Mutuelle Générale de l’Education Nationale
National Research Council
Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports
Netherlands Cancer Registry
LK Research Funds
Dutch Prevention Funds
Dutch ZON
Statistics Netherlands
Regional Governments of Andalucía
Catalan Institute of Oncology – ICO-IDIBELL
Swedish Cancer Society
County Councils of Skåne and Västerbotten
Medical Research Council (MR/N003284/1 and MC-UU_12015/1 to EPIC-Norfolk; MR/M012190/1 to EPIC-Oxford)
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Article History
Received: 19 June 2020
Accepted: 23 October 2020
First Online: 4 January 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study complies with the Declaration of Helsinki. Ethical review boards of IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) and all local institutions where participants had been recruited gave approval for the study, and all participants gave written informed consent for data collection and storage, as well as individual follow-up.
: Not applicable.
: The authors have read the BMC Medicine editorial policy on competing interests and declare they have no relevant conflicts of interest to declare.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.