About the Authors

Torin Schaafsma

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Jon Wakefield

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Rachel Hanisch

Affiliation Section of Environment and Radiation, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Freddie Bray

Affiliation Section of Cancer Surveillance, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Joachim Schüz

Affiliation Section of Environment and Radiation, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Edward J. M. Joy

Affiliations Centre for Environmental Geochemistry, Inorganic Geochemistry, British Geological Survey, Nottingham, United Kingdom, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, United Kingdom

Michael J. Watts

Affiliation Centre for Environmental Geochemistry, Inorganic Geochemistry, British Geological Survey, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Valerie McCormack

mccormackv@iarc.fr

Affiliation Section of Environment and Radiation, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VM JW TS EJMJ JS. Performed the experiments: TS JW VM. Analyzed the data: TS JW VM. Wrote the paper: VM JW RH EJMJ MJW FB.