About the Authors

Christel Häggström

christel.haggstrom@urologi.umu.se

Affiliation Department of Surgical and Perioperative sciences, Urology and Andrology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Kilian Rapp

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Tanja Stocks

Affiliations Department of Surgical and Perioperative sciences, Urology and Andrology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Jonas Manjer

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Tone Bjørge

Affiliations Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo/Bergen, Norway

Hanno Ulmer

Affiliation Department of Medical Statistics, Informatics and Health Economics, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Anders Engeland

Affiliations Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo/Bergen, Norway

Martin Almqvist

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Hans Concin

Affiliation Agency for Preventive and Social Medicine, Bregenz, Austria

Randi Selmer

Affiliation Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo/Bergen, Norway

Börje Ljungberg

Affiliation Department of Surgical and Perioperative sciences, Urology and Andrology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Steinar Tretli

Affiliation Institute of Population-based Cancer Research, The Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway

Gabriele Nagel

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany, Agency for Preventive and Social Medicine, Bregenz, Austria

Göran Hallmans

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Nutritional Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Håkan Jonsson

Affiliation Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Pär Stattin

Affiliations Department of Surgical and Perioperative sciences, Urology and Andrology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Department of Surgery, Urology Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Read and revised the manuscript, accepted the final version: CH KR TS JM TB HU AE MA HC RS BL ST GN GH HJ PS. Financed the study: PS. Supervised the study: PS TS HJ. Conceived and designed the experiments: TS PS TB HU JM CH KR. Performed the experiments: CH KR HJ TS. Analyzed the data: CH KR HJ TS PS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CH KR TS JM TB HU AE MA HC RS BL ST GN GH HJ PS. Wrote the paper: CH KR TS HJ PS.