Carmen Martinez, Petra H.M. Peeters, Merethe Kumle, Paolo Vineis, Armelle Munnia, Seymour Garte, Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Emmanuelle Gormally, Ole Raaschou-Nielsen, Antonio Agudo, Giuseppe Matullo, Bengt Järvholm, Françoise Clavel-Chapelon, José Ramón Quirós, Göran Berglund, Marco Peluso, Alison M. Dunning, Rosario Tumino, Alessandro Colombi, Salvatore Panico, Timothy J. Key, Luisa Airoldi, Elio Riboli, S Bingham, Fabrizio Veglia, Rudolf Kaaks, Antonia Trichopoulou, Aurelio Barricarte, Vittorio Krogh, Christian Malaveille, Nicholas E. Day, Kim Overvad, Rodolfo Saracci, Herman Autrup, María José Tormo, Domenico Palli, J. Linseisen, Heiner Boeing, Miren Dorronsoro, Faculteit Medische Wetenschappen/UMCG, Peluso, M, Airoldi, L, Munnia, A, Colombi, A, Veglia, F, Autrup, H, Dunning, A, Garte, S, Gormally, E, Malaveille, C, Matullo, G, Overvad, K, Raaschou Nielsen, O, Clavel Chapelon, F, Linseisen, J, Boeing, H, Trichopoulou, A, Palli, D, Krogh, V, Tumino, R, Panico, Salvatore, Bueno De Mesquita, Bh, Peeters, Ph, Kumle, M, Agudo, A, Martinez, C, Dorronsoro, M, Barricarte, A, Tormo, Mj, Quiros, Jr, Berglund, G, Jarvholm, B, Day, Ne, Key, Tj, Saracci, R, Kaaks, R, Riboli, E, Bingham, S, Vineis, P., [Peluso,M, Munnia, A] Cancer Risk Factor Branch, Analytical and Biomolecular Cytology Unit, CSPO-Scientific Institute of Tuscany, Florence, Italy. [Airoldi,L, Colombi,A] Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Milan, Italy. [Veglia, F, Matullo,G] ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy. [Autrup,H] Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Aarhus, Denmark. [Dunning, A] Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. [Garte,S] Genetics Research Institute, Milan, Italy. [Gormally,E, Malaveille,C] International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France. [Overhad,K] Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aalborg Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark. [Raaschou-Nielsen,O] Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark. [Clavel-Chapelon,F] INSERM (Institut National de la Sante´ et de la Recherche Me´dicale), ERI 20, EA 4045, and Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, F-94805, France. [Linseisen,J] Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, German. [Boeing,H] German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbu¨cke, Germany. [Trichopoulou,A] Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece. [Palli,D] Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, CSPO-Scientific Institute of Cancer Prevention Tuscany Region, Florence, Italy. [Krogh,V] Department of Epidemiology, National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy. [Tumino,R] Cancer Registry, Azienda Ospedaliera ‘Civile MP Arezzo’, Ragusa, Ital. [Panico,S] Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Universita` Federico II, Naples, Italy. [Bueno-De-Mesquita,BH] Centre for Nutrition and Health, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherland. [Peeters,PH] Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands. [Kumle,M] Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway. [Agudo,A] Department of Epidemiology, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain. [Martinez,C] Andalusian School of Public Health, Granada, Spain. [Dorronsoro,M] Department of Public Health of Guipuzkoa, San Sebastian, Spain. [Barricarte,A] Public Health Institute, Navarra, Spain. [Tormo,MJ] Epidemiology Department, Murcia Health Council, Murcia, Spain. Quiros, JR] Direccio´n General de Salud Pu´blica, Consejerı´a de Salud y Servicios Sanitarios Asturias, Oviedo, Spain. [Berglund,G] Malmo¨ Diet and Cancer Study, Lund University, Malmo¨, Sweden. [Jarvholm,G] Department of Nutritional Research, University of Umea˚, Umea˚ , Sweden. [Day,ND, Bingham,S] MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit, Cambridge University, UK. [Key,TJ].Cancer Research UK Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. [Saracci,R] IFC National Research Council, Pisa, Italy. [Kaas,R] Division of Epidemiology, DKFZ Heidelberg, Germany. [Riboli,E] Imperial College London, London, UK. [Vineis,P] University of Turin, Turin, Italy. Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK, This paper was made possible by a grant of the European Community (5th Framework Programme) to P. V. (grant QLK4–CT–1999–00 927) and a grant of the Compagnia di San Paolo to the ISI Foundation. All authors are independent from funders. Mortality data for the Netherlands were obtained from Statistics Netherlands. Also, the work described in the paper was carried out with the financial support of: Europe Against Cancer Program of the European Commission (SANCO), ISCIII, Red de Centros RCESP, C03/09, Deutsche Krebshilfe, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Danish Cancer Society, Health Research Fund (FIS) of the Spanish Ministry of Health, Spanish Regional Governments of Andalucia, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia and Navarra, Cancer Research UK, Medical Research Council, UK, Stroke Association, UK, British Heart Foundation, Department of Health, UK, Food Standards Agency, UK, Wellcome Trust, UK, Greek Ministry of Health, Greek Ministry of Education, Italian Association for Research on Cancer (AIRC), Italian National Research Council, Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports, World Cancer Research Fund, Swedish Cancer Society, Swedish Scientific Council, Regional Government of Ska°ne, Sweden, Norwegian Cancer Society, and Research Council of Norway.