About the Authors

Susanne Strohmaier

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

Michael Edlinger

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

Jonas Manjer

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

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

Tone Bjørge

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

Wegene Borena

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

Christel Häggström

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

Anders Engeland

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

Gabriele Nagel

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

Martin Almquist

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

Randi Selmer

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

Steinar Tretli

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

Hans Concin

Affiliation 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, Urology Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Hanno Ulmer

hanno.ulmer@i-med.ac.at

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS ME JM TS TB WB CH AE GN MA RS ST HC GH HJ PS HU. Analyzed the data: SS ME HJ HU. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS ME JM TS TB WB CH AE GN MA RS ST HC GH HJ PS HU. Wrote the paper: SS ME JM TS TB WB CH AE GN MA RS ST HC GH HJ PS HU.