About the Authors

Cari M. Kitahara

kitaharac@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Alan J. Flint

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Amy Berrington de Gonzalez

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Leslie Bernstein

Affiliation Division of Cancer Etiology, Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Michelle Brotzman

Affiliation Westat, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Robert J. MacInnis

Affiliations Cancer Epidemiology Centre, Cancer Council of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic, and Analytic Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Steven C. Moore

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kim Robien

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Philip S. Rosenberg

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Pramil N. Singh

Affiliation Center for Health Research, School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, United States of America

Elisabete Weiderpass

Affiliations Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø—The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway, Samfundet Folkhälsan, Helsinki, Finland

Hans Olov Adami

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Hoda Anton-Culver

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

Rachel Ballard-Barbash

Affiliation Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Julie E. Buring

Affiliation Divisions of Preventive Medicine and Aging, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

D. Michal Freedman

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Gary E. Fraser

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Population Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Public Health, Loma Linda, California, United States of America

Laura E. Beane Freeman

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Susan M. Gapstur

Affiliation Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

John Michael Gaziano

Affiliations Divisions of Preventive Medicine and Aging, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Massachusetts Veteran's Epidemiology, Research and Information Center, Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Graham G. Giles

Affiliations Cancer Epidemiology Centre, Cancer Council of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic, and Analytic Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Niclas Håkansson

Affiliation Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, National Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Jane A. Hoppin

Affiliation Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Frank B. Hu

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Karen Koenig

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Department of Population Health and NYU Cancer Institute, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Martha S. Linet

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yikyung Park

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Alpa V. Patel

Affiliation Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Mark P. Purdue

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Catherine Schairer

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Howard D. Sesso

Affiliation Divisions of Preventive Medicine and Aging, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kala Visvanathan

Affiliations Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Emily White

Affiliation Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Alicja Wolk

Affiliation Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, National Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Department of Population Health and NYU Cancer Institute, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Patricia Hartge

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

HOA is a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS Medicine. The authors have declared that no other competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CMK AJF ABdeG SCM PSR PH. Analyzed the data: CMK. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: CMK AJF ABdeG PH. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: CMK AJF ABdeG LB MB RJM SCM KR PSR PNS EW HOA HAC RBB JEB DMF GEF LEBF SMG JMG GGG NH JAH FBH KK MSL YP AVP MPP CS HDS KV EW AW AZJ PH. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: CMK AJF ABdeG LB MB RJM SCM KR PSR PNS EW HOA HAC RBB JEB DMF GEF LEBF SMG JMG GGG NH JAH FBH KK MSL YP AVP MPP CS HDS KV EW AW AZJ PH. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: CMK AJF ABdeG LB MB RJM SCM KR PSR PNS EW HOA HAC RBB JEB DMF GEF LEBF SMG JMG GGG NH JAH FBH KK MSL YP AVP MPP CS HDS KV EW AW AZJ PH. Contributed data: AJF LB RJM SCM KR PNS EW HOA HAC JEB DMF GEF LEBF SMG JMG GGG NH JAH FBH KK MSL YP AVP MPP CS HDS KV EW AW AZJ. Harmonized the dataset: MB.