About the Authors

Neil Murphy

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Teresa Norat

t.norat@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Pietro Ferrari

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Mazda Jenab

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita

Affiliations The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Guri Skeie

Affiliation Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Anja Olsen

Affiliation Danish Cancer Society, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Copenhagen, Denmark

Anne Tjønneland

Affiliation Danish Cancer Society, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Copenhagen, Denmark

Christina C. Dahm

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Kim Overvad

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Marie Christine Boutron-Ruault

Affiliations Inserm, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France, Paris South University, UMRS 1018, F-94805, Villejuif, France

Françoise Clavel-Chapelon

Affiliations Inserm, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France, Paris South University, UMRS 1018, F-94805, Villejuif, France

Laura Nailler

Affiliations Inserm, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France, Paris South University, UMRS 1018, F-94805, Villejuif, France

Rudolf Kaaks

Affiliation German Cancer Research Center, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Heidelberg, Germany

Birgit Teucher

Affiliation German Cancer Research Center, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Heidelberg, Germany

Heiner Boeing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany

Manuela M. Bergmann

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany

Antonia Trichopoulou

Affiliations World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Food and Nutrition Policies, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece, Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece

Pagona Lagiou

Affiliations World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Food and Nutrition Policies, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece

Dimitrios Trichopoulos

Affiliations Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece

Domenico Palli

Affiliation Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute – ISPO, Florence, Italy

Valeria Pala

Affiliation Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, Italy

Rosario Tumino

Affiliation Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, “Civile – M.P.Arezzo” Hospita, ASP Ragusa, Italy

Paolo Vineis

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, HuGeF Foundation, Torino, Italy

Salvatore Panico

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Federico II University, Naples, Italy

Petra H. M. Peeters

Affiliation Julius Centre, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Vincent K. Dik

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Elisabete Weiderpass

Affiliation Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Eiliv Lund

Affiliation Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Jose Ramon Quiros Garcia

Affiliation Public Health Directorate, Asturias, Spain

Raul Zamora-Ros

Affiliation Unit of Nutrition, Environment and Cancer Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain

Maria José Sánchez Pérez

Affiliations Andalusian School of Public Health, Granada, Spain, CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health CIBERESP, Madrid, Spain

Miren Dorronsoro

Affiliation Public Health Division of Gipuzkoa, Basque Regional Health Department and Ciberesp-Biodonostia, San Sebastian, Spain

Carmen Navarro

Affiliations CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health CIBERESP, Madrid, Spain, Department of Epidemiology, Murcia Regional Health Council, Murcia, Spain, Sociosanitary Sciences Department, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain

Eva Ardanaz

Affiliations CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health CIBERESP, Madrid, Spain, Navarre Public Health Institute, Pamplona, Spain

Jonas Manjer

Affiliation Department of Plastic Surgery, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden

Martin Almquist

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden

Ingegerd Johansson

Affiliation Department of Odontology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Richard Palmqvist

Affiliation Department of Medical Biosciences, Pathology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Kay-Tee Khaw

Affiliation University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Nick Wareham

Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Timothy J. Key

Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Francesca L. Crowe

Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Veronika Fedirko

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Marc J. Gunter

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Elio Riboli

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: NM TN. Wrote the paper: NM TN. Analysed the data: NM TN. Wrote the paper: NM TN. Review: PF MJ BBM GS ER. Interpretation of results: NM TN PF MJ BBM GS ER. Commented on the analysis and interpretation of the findings: AO A. Tjønneland CCD KO MCBR FCC LN RK BT HB MMB A. Trichopoulou PL DT DP VP RT PV SP PHMP VKD EW EL JRQG RZR MJSP MD CN EA JM MA IJ RP KTK NW TJK FLC VF MJG.