About the Authors

Norie Sawada

Affiliations School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Center for Public Health Sciences, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan

Petra A. Wark

Affiliation School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Melissa A. Merritt

Affiliation School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Shoichiro Tsugane

Affiliation Center for Public Health Sciences, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan

Heather A. Ward

Affiliation School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Sabina Rinaldi

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Elisabete Weiderpass

Affiliations 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, Institute of Population-Based Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Genetic Epidemiology Group, Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland

Laureen Dartois

Affiliation Health Across Generations Team, CESP, Université Paris-Sud, UVSQ, INSERM, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France

Mathilde His

Affiliation Health Across Generations Team, CESP, Université Paris-Sud, UVSQ, INSERM, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France

Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault

Affiliation Health Across Generations Team, CESP, Université Paris-Sud, UVSQ, INSERM, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France

Renée Turzanski-Fortner

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology; German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Rudolf Kaaks

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology; German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Kim Overvad

Affiliations Aarhus University, Department of Public Health, Section for Epidemiology, Aarhus, Denmark, Aalborg University Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Aalborg Hospital Science and Innovation Center, Aalborg, Denmark

María-Luisa Redondo

Affiliation Public Health Directorate, Asturias, Spain

Noemie Travier

Affiliation Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain

Elena Molina-Portillo

Affiliations Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública. Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs. Granada, Hospitales Universitarios de Granada/Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain, CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Madrid, Spain

Miren Dorronsoro

Affiliation Public Health Direction and Biodonostia-Ciberesp, Basque Regional Health Department, San Sebastian, Spain

Lluis Cirera

Affiliation Unidad de Registro y Estadística de Mortalidad, Unit of Mortality Coding and Statistics, Servicio de Epidemiología, Consejería de Sanidad, Department of Epidemiology, Murcia’s Regional Health Council, Murcia, Spain

Eva Ardanaz

Affiliations CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Madrid, Spain, Navara Public Health Institute, Pamplona, Spain, IdiSNA, Navara Institute for Health Research, Pamplona, Spain

Aurora Perez-Cornago

Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Antonia Trichopoulou

Affiliations Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece, WHO Collaborating Center for Nutrition and Health, Unit of Nutritional Epidemiology and Nutrition in Public Health, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece

Pagona Lagiou

Affiliations Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece, WHO Collaborating Center for Nutrition and Health, Unit of Nutritional Epidemiology and Nutrition in Public Health, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, United States of America

Elissavet Valanou

Affiliation Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece

Giovanna Masala

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

Valeria Pala

Affiliation Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy

Petra HM Peeters

Affiliation Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Yvonne T. van der Schouw

Affiliation Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Olle Melander

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Jonas Manjer

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Skane University Hospital Malmo Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Marisa da Silva

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

Guri Skeie

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

Anne Tjønneland

Affiliation Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

Anja Olsen

Affiliation Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

Marc J. Gunter

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Elio Riboli

Affiliation School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Amanda J. Cross

amanda.cross@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NS PW MM ST HW EW MJG ER AJC. Data curation: SR. Formal analysis: NS PW MM HW AJC. Funding acquisition: ER. Investigation: SR EW LD MH MB RTF RK KO MLR NT EMP MD LC EA APC A. Trichopoulou PL EV GM VP PHMP YTS OM JM MS GS A. Tjønneland AO MJG ER AJC. Methodology: NS PW AJC. Project administration: ER. Resources: SR EW LD MH MB RTF RK KO MLR NT EMP MD LC EA APC A. Trichopoulou PL EV GM VP PHMP YTS OM JM MS GS A. Tjønneland AO MJG ER AJC. Software: NS PW MM HW. Supervision: ER AJC. Validation: NS PW. Visualization: NS AJC. Writing – original draft: NS. Writing – review & editing: NS PW MM ST HW SR EW LD MH MB RTF RK KO MLR NT EMP MD LC EA APC A. Trichopoulou PL EV GM VP PHMP YTS OM JM MS GS A. Tjønneland AO MJG ER AJC.