About the Authors

Tapashi Dalvi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation AstraZeneca, One MedImmune Way, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Mette Nørgaard

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus N, Denmark

Jon P. Fryzek

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus N, Denmark, EpidStrategies, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Naimisha Movva

Roles Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation EpidStrategies, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Lars Pedersen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus N, Denmark

Hanh Pham Hansen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus N, Denmark

Jill Walker

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Anita Midha

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Norah Shire

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation AstraZeneca, One MedImmune Way, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Anne-Marie Boothman

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom

James Rigas

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation AstraZeneca, One MedImmune Way, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Anders Mellemgaard

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Oncology, Bornholm Hospital, Rønne, Denmark

Torben R. Rasmussen

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Dansk Lunge Cancer Gruppe, Odense, Denmark, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus N, Denmark

Stephen Hamilton-Dutoit

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus N, Denmark

Deirdre Cronin-Fenton

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

dc@clin.au.dk

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus N, Denmark

Competing Interests

Tapashi Dalvi, Jill Walker, Anita Midha, Norah Shire, Anders Mellemgaard, and Anne Marie Boothman are employees of AstraZeneca. Tapashi Dalvi, Jill Walker, Anita Midha, and Anne Marie Boothman own stock in AstraZeneca. Jon P. Fryzek and Naimisha Movva are employees of EpidStrategies. James Rigas was an employee of AstraZeneca during the study period. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. However, Danish law does not allow researchers to share raw data from the registries with third parties. Data can be accessed by researchers through application to the Danish Data Protection Agency and the Danish Health Data Authority. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.