About the Authors

Wahyu Wulaningsih

Affiliation King’s College London, School of Medicine, Division of Cancer Studies, Cancer Epidemiology Group, London, United Kingdom

Lars Holmberg

Affiliations King’s College London, School of Medicine, Division of Cancer Studies, Cancer Epidemiology Group, London, United Kingdom, Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden, Regional Cancer Centre, Uppsala, Sweden

Hans Garmo

Affiliations King’s College London, School of Medicine, Division of Cancer Studies, Cancer Epidemiology Group, London, United Kingdom, Regional Cancer Centre, Uppsala, Sweden

Björn Zethelius

Affiliations Department of Public Health/Geriatrics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Medical Products Agency/Epidemiology, Uppsala, Sweden

Annette Wigertz

Affiliation Regional Cancer Centre, Uppsala, Sweden

Paul Carroll

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Mats Lambe

Affiliations Regional Cancer Centre, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Niklas Hammar

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Insitute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, AstraZeneca Sverige, Södertalje, Sweden

Göran Walldius

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Ingmar Jungner

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Clinical Epidemiological Unit, Karolinska Institutet and CALAB Research, Stockholm, Sweden

Mieke Van Hemelrijck

mieke.vanhemelrijck@kcl.ac.uk

Affiliation King’s College London, School of Medicine, Division of Cancer Studies, Cancer Epidemiology Group, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Björn Zethelius is employed by the Medical Products Agency (MPA), Uppsala, Sweden and the views of the present study are his own and not necessarily any official views of the MPA. Niklas Hammar is employed by the AstraZeneca Sverige, Södertalje, Sweden and the views of the present study are his own and not necessarily any official views of the AstraZeneca Sverige. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Interpreted analysis results: WW LH HG BZ PC MVH. Edited and reviewed manuscript: WW LH HG BZ AW PC ML NH GW IJ MVH. Conceived and designed the experiments: WW HG MVH. Performed the experiments: WW. Analyzed the data: WW HG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LH AW ML NH GW IJ MVH. Wrote the paper: WW.