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Mathilde His, Vivian Viallon, Laure Dossus, Julie A. Schmidt, Ruth C. Travis, Marc J. Gunter, Kim Overvad, Cecilie Kyrø, Anne Tjønneland, Lucie Lécuyer, Joseph A. Rothwell, Gianluca Severi, Theron Johnson, Verena Katzke, Matthias B. Schulze, Giovanna Masala, Sabina Sieri, Salvatore Panico, Rosario Tumino, Alessandra Macciotta, Jolanda M. A. Boer, Evelyn M. Monninkhof, Karina Standahl Olsen, Therese H. Nøst, Torkjel M. Sandanger, Antonio Agudo, Maria-Jose Sánchez, Pilar Amiano, Sandra M. Colorado-Yohar, Eva Ardanaz, Linda Vidman, Anna Winkvist, Alicia K. Heath, Elisabete Weiderpass, Inge Huybrechts, Sabina Rinaldi, International Agency for Cancer Research (IACR), University of Oxford, Aarhus University [Aarhus], Danish Cancer Society Research Center [Copenhagen, Denmark] (DCSRC), University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Saclay, Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence (UniFI), Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Cancer Research Center - Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum [Heidelberg] (DKFZ), German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke [Nuthetal, Germany] (GIHNP-R), University of Potsdam = Universität Potsdam, Istituto per lo Studio, la Prevenzione e la rete Oncologica [Florence, Italy] (ISPRO), IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori [Milano], University of Naples Federico II = Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Provincial Health Authority (ASP 7) [Ragusa, Italy], Università degli studi di Torino = University of Turin (UNITO), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment [Bilthoven] (RIVM), University Medical Center [Utrecht], The Arctic University of Norway [Tromsø, Norway] (UiT), Catalan Institute of Oncology [Barcelone, Espagne], L’Hospitalet de Llobregat [Barcelona, Spain], Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública [Granada, Spain] (EASP), Universidad de Granada = University of Granada (UGR), CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Public Health Division of Gipuzkoa, Basque Government, CIBER en Salud Pública, CIBERSP, Biodonostia Health Research Institute [Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain] (IIS Biodonostia), Murcia Regional Health Council [Murcia], Universidad de Antioquia = University of Antioquia [Medellín, Colombia], Navarra Public Health Institute, Umeå University, Imperial College London, Kræftens Bekæmpelse, DCS, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ, Centre International de Recherche sur le Cancer, CIRC, National Research Council, NRC, University of Maryland School of Public Health, SPH, Cancer Research UK, CRUK, World Cancer Research Fund, WCRF, University of Cambridge, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Inserm, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF, Cancerfonden, Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport, VWS, Fondation ARC pour la Recherche sur le Cancer, ARC, Ligue Contre le Cancer, Vetenskapsrådet, VR, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, ISCIII, Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro, AIRC, Deutsche Krebshilfe, Institut National Du Cancer, INCa: 2015-166, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l'Education Nationale, MGEN, NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, BRC, The national cohorts are supported by Danish Cancer Society (Denmark), Ligue Contre le Cancer, Institut Gustave Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l’Education Nationale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) (France), German Cancer Aid, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (Germany), Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro-AIRC-Italy, Compagnia di SanPaolo and National Research Council (Italy), Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS), LK Research Funds, Dutch Prevention Funds, Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland), World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) (The Netherlands), Health Research Fund (FIS) - Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Regional Governments of Andalucía, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia and Navarra, and the Catalan Institute of Oncology - ICO (Spain), Swedish Cancer Society, Swedish Research Council and County Councils of Skåne and Västerbotten (Sweden), and Cancer Research UK (14136 to EPIC-Norfolk (DOI 10.22025/2019.10.105.00004), C8221/A29017 to EPIC-Oxford), Medical Research Council (1000143, MR/N003284/1, MC-UU_12015/1 and MC_UU_00006/1 to EPIC-Norfolk, MR/M012190/1 to EPIC-Oxford) (UK). The funders were not involved in designing the study, collecting, analyzing, or interpreting the data, or writing or submitting the manuscript for publication., The coordination of EPIC is financially supported by International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and also by the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, which has additional infrastructure support provided by the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)., This work was funded by the French National Cancer Institute (grant number 2015-166). Mathilde His’ work reported here was undertaken during the tenure of a postdoctoral fellowship awarded by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, financed by the Fondation ARC., The authors would like to thank Mr Bertrand Hemon for his support in preparing the databases, Ms Audrey Gicquiau and Dr David Achaintre for the analyses of samples in several of the original studies, and all EPIC participants. The EPIC-Norfolk team thank all the participants who have been part of the project and the many members of the study teams at the University of Cambridge who have enabled this research. Where authors are identified as personnel of the International Agency for Research on Cancer/World Health Organization, the authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this article and they do not necessarily represent the decisions, policy, or views of the International Agency for Research on Cancer/World Health Organization., and HAL UVSQ, Équipe

Amanda J. Cross, Kristin Benjaminsen Borch, Anne Kirstine Eriksen, Elio Riboli, José María Huerta, H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Giovanna Masala, Núria Sala, Anne Tjønneland, Anika Hüsing, Rudolf Kaaks, Sara Grioni, Anne M. May, Fanny Artaud, Antonia Trichopoulou, Pilar Amiano, Eleni Peppa, Marc J. Gunter, Timothy J. Key, Aurelio Barricarte Gurrea, Jonna Berntsson, Anna Karakatsani, Mazda Jenab, Elisabete Weiderpass, Isabel Drake, Christina C. Dahm, Torkjel M. Sandanger, Bethany Van Guelpen, Robin Reichmann, María José Sánchez, Guri Skeie, Konstantinos K. Tsilidis, Gianluca Severi, Carlotta Sacerdote, Sjoerd G. Elias, José Ramón Quirós, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Salvatore Panico, Krasimira Aleksandrova, Rosario Tumino, Sophia Harlid, Elom K. Aglago, [Aleksandrova,K, Reichmann,R] Nutrition, Immunity and Metabolism Senior Scientist Group, Department of Nutrition and Gerontology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE), Nuthetal, Germany. [Aleksandrova,K, Reichmann,R] Institute of Nutritional Science, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. [Aleksandrova,K] Department of Epidemiological Methods and Etiological Research, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Bremen, Germany. [Kaaks,R, Hüsing,A] Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. [Jenab,M, Weiderpass,E, Aglago,EK, Gunter,MJ] International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France. [Bueno-de-Mesquita,HB] National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands. [Bueno-de-Mesquita,HB, Cross,AJ, Tsilidis,KK, Riboli,E] Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK. [Dahm,CC] Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. [Eriksen,AK, Tjønneland,A] Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark. [Artaud,F, Boutron-Ruault,MC, Severi,G] CESP, Faculté de Medicine, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France. [Artaud,F, Severi,G] Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France. [Severi,G] Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica e Applicazioni 'G. Parenti' (DISIA), University of Florence, Florence, Italy. [Trichopoulou,A, Karakatsani,A, Peppa,E] Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece. [Karakatsani,A] 2nd Pulmonary Medicine Department, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 'ATTIKON' University Hospital, Haidari, Greece. [Panico,S] EPIC Centre of Naples, Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Chirurgia, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy. [Masala,G] 1Cancer Risk Factors and Lifestyle Epidemiology Unit, Institute for Cancer Research, Prevention and Clinical Network – ISPRO, Florence, Italy. [Grioni,S] Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Milan, Italy. [Sacerdote,C] Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, Città della Salute e della Scienza University-Hospital and Center for Cancer Prevention (CPO), Turin, Italy. [Tumino,R] Cancer Registry and Histopathology Department, Provincial Health Authority (ASP), Ragusa, Italy. [Elias,SG, May,AM] Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. [Borch,KB, Sandanger,TM, Skeie,G] Department of Community Medicine, Health Faculty, UiT-the Arctic university of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. [Sánchez,MJ] Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública (EASP), Granada, Spain. [Sánchez,MJ] Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain. [Sánchez,MJ, Huerta,JM, Gurrea,AB, Amiano,P] Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain. [Sánchez,MJ] Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain. [Huerta,JM] Department of Epidemiology, Murcia Regional Health Council, IMIB-Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain. [Sala,N] Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Translational Research Laboratory, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), Barcelona, Spain. [Sala,N] Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain. [Gurrea,AB] Navarra Public Health Institute, Pamplona, Spain. [Gurrea,AB] Navarra Institute for Health Research (IdiSNA), Pamplona, Spain. [Quirós,JR] Public Health Directorate, Asturias, Spain. [Amiano,P] Ministry of Health of the Basque Government, Public Health Division of Gipuzkoa, Biodonostia Health Research Institute, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. [Berntsson,J] Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Oncology and Pathology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. [Drake,I] Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. [van Guelpen,B, Harlid,S] Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. [van Guelpen,B] Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. [Key,T] Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. [Tsilidis,KK] Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece., This work was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) (grant AL 1784/3-1), which funded the research position of Dr. Aleksandrova for organizing study conduct and analysis. The coordination of EPIC is financially supported by the European Commission (DG-SANCO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The national cohorts are supported by Danish Cancer Society (Denmark), Ligue Contre le Cancer, Institut Gustave Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l’Education Nationale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) (France), Deutsche Krebshilfe, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ) and Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (Germany), Hellenic Health Foundation (Greece), Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro-AIRC-Italy and National Research Council (Italy), Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS), Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR), LK Research Funds, Dutch Prevention Funds, Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland), World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), Statistics Netherlands (The Netherlands), Health Research Fund (FIS), Instituto de salud Carlos III PI13/00061 to Granada, PI13/ 01162 to EPIC-Murcia, Regional Governments of Andalucía, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia (no. 6236), Navarra and Catalonia (Catalan Institute of Oncology – ICO-IDIBELL) (Spain), Swedish Cancer Society, Swedish Research Council and County Councils of Skåne and Västerbotten (Sweden), and Cancer Research UK (C864/A14136 to EPIC-Norfolk and C8221/A19170 to EPICOxford), Medical Research Council (MR/N003284/1 and MC-UU_12015/1 to EPIC-Norfolk and MR/M012190/1 to EPIC-Oxford) (United Kingdom). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.

Katharina Nimptsch, Krasimira Aleksandrova, Veronika Fedirko, Mazda Jenab, Marc J. Gunter, Peter D. Siersema, Kana Wu, Verena Katzke, Rudolf Kaaks, Salvatore Panico, Domenico Palli, Anne M May, Sabina Sieri, Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Karina Standahl, Maria-Jose Sánchez, Aurora Perez-Cornago, Anja Olsen, Anne Tjønneland, Catalina Bonet Bonet, Christina C. Dahm, María-Dolores Chirlaque, Valentina Fiano, Rosario Tumino, Aurelio Barricarte Gurrea, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Florence Menegaux, Gianluca Severi, Bethany van Guelpen, Young-Ae Lee, Tobias Pischon, HAL UVSQ, Équipe, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine [Berlin] (MDC), Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft = Helmholtz Association, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Leibniz Association, University of Bremen, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center [Houston], Emory University [Atlanta, GA], Centre International de Recherche contre le Cancer - International Agency for Research on Cancer (CIRC - IARC), Organisation Mondiale de la Santé / World Health Organization Office (OMS / WHO), Radboud University Medical Center [Nijmegen], German Cancer Research Center - Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum [Heidelberg] (DKFZ), Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Saclay, World Health Organization, WHO, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, CPRIT: RR200056, Kræftens Bekæmpelse, DCS, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ, Centre International de Recherche sur le Cancer, CIRC, National Research Council, NRC, University of Maryland School of Public Health, SPH, Medical Research Council, MRC: MR/M012190/1, Cancer Research UK, CRUK: C8221/A29017, World Cancer Research Fund, WCRF, Imperial College London, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Inserm, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF, Cancerfonden, Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport, VWS, Ligue Contre le Cancer, Vetenskapsrådet, VR, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, ISCIII, Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro, AIRC, Deutsche Krebshilfe, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l'Education Nationale, MGEN, Consejería de Salud y Familias, Junta de Andalucía, NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, BRC, We acknowledge the use of data and biological samples from the EPIC-Asturias cohort, PI Jose-Ramon Quiros-Garcia and EPI-San Sebastian, PI Amiano Pilar. Veronika Fedirko is supported by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Rising Stars Award (Grant ID RR200056). Where authors are identified as personnel of the International Agency for Research on Cancer / World Health Organization, the authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this article and they do not necessarily represent the decisions, policy or views of the International Agency for Research on Cancer / World Health Organization., The national cohorts are supported by: Danish Cancer Society (Denmark), Ligue Contre le Cancer, Institut Gustave Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l’Education Nationale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) (France), German Cancer Aid, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (Germany), Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro-AIRC-Italy, Compagnia di SanPaolo and National Research Council (Italy), Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS), Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR), LK Research Funds, Dutch Prevention Funds, Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland), World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), Statistics Netherlands (The Netherlands), Health Research Fund (FIS) - Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Regional Governments of Andalucía, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia and Navarra, and the Catalan Institute of Oncology - ICO (Spain), Swedish Cancer Society, Swedish Research Council and County Councils of Skåne and Västerbotten (Sweden), Cancer Research UK (C8221/A29017 to EPIC-Oxford), Medical Research Council (MR/M012190/1 to EPIC-Oxford) (United Kingdom). The EPIC-Norfolk study (DOI https://doi.org/10.22025/2019.10.105.00004 ) has received funding from the Medical Research Council (MR/N003284/1 and MC-UU_12015/1) and Cancer Research UK (C864/A14136). We are grateful to all the participants who have been part of the project and to the many members of the study teams at the University of Cambridge who have enabled this research., The coordination of EPIC is financially supported by International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and also by the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London which has additional infrastructure support provided by the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)., and We acknowledge the use of data and biological samples from the EPIC-Asturias cohort, PI Jose-Ramon Quiros-Garcia and EPI-San Sebastian, PI Amiano Pilar. Veronika Fedirko is supported by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Rising Stars Award (Grant ID RR200056).

Marie Breeur, Pietro Ferrari, Laure Dossus, Mazda Jenab, Mattias Johansson, Sabina Rinaldi, Ruth C. Travis, Mathilde His, Tim J. Key, Julie A. Schmidt, Kim Overvad, Anne Tjønneland, Cecilie Kyrø, Joseph A. Rothwell, Nasser Laouali, Gianluca Severi, Rudolf Kaaks, Verena Katzke, Matthias B. Schulze, Fabian Eichelmann, Domenico Palli, Sara Grioni, Salvatore Panico, Rosario Tumino, Carlotta Sacerdote, Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Karina Standahl Olsen, Torkjel Manning Sandanger, Therese Haugdahl Nøst, J. Ramón Quirós, Catalina Bonet, Miguel Rodríguez Barranco, María-Dolores Chirlaque, Eva Ardanaz, Malte Sandsveden, Jonas Manjer, Linda Vidman, Matilda Rentoft, David Muller, Kostas Tsilidis, Alicia K. Heath, Hector Keun, Jerzy Adamski, Pekka Keski-Rahkonen, Augustin Scalbert, Marc J. Gunter, Vivian Viallon, Cancer Research UK, Centre International de Recherche contre le Cancer - International Agency for Research on Cancer (CIRC - IARC), Organisation Mondiale de la Santé / World Health Organization Office (OMS / WHO), Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Saclay, Kræftens Bekæmpelse, DCS, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ, Centre International de Recherche sur le Cancer, CIRC: 2014/1183, C8221/A19170, Seventh Framework Programme, FP7: 2014/1193, 313010, C19335/A21351, National Research Council, NRC, World Cancer Research Fund International, WCRF, University of Maryland School of Public Health, SPH, Medical Research Council, MRC: MR/M012190/1, Cancer Research UK, CRUK: C8221/A29017, World Cancer Research Fund, WCRF, Imperial College London, European Commission, EC, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Inserm, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF, Cancerfonden, Generalitat de Catalunya, Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport, VWS, Fondation ARC pour la Recherche sur le Cancer, ARC, Ligue Contre le Cancer, Vetenskapsrådet, VR, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, ISCIII, Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro, AIRC, Deutsche Krebshilfe, Institut National Du Cancer, INCa: 2009-139, 2013/1002, 2014-1-RT-02-CIRC-1, 2015-166, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l'Education Nationale, MGEN, Consejería de Salud y Familias, Junta de Andalucía, NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, BRC, The coordination of EPIC is financially supported by International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and by the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, which has additional infrastructure support provided by the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)., This paper is dedicated to the memory our of colleague Dr. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita. Where authors are identified as personnel of the International Agency for Research on Cancer/World Health Organization, the authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this article and they do not necessarily represent the decisions, policy, or views of the International Agency for Research on Cancer/World Health Organization., The national cohorts are supported by Danish Cancer Society (Denmark), Ligue Contre le Cancer, Institut Gustave Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l’Education Nationale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) (France), German Cancer Aid, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (Germany), Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro-AIRC-Italy, Compagnia di SanPaolo and National Research Council (Italy), Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS), Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR), LK Research Funds, Dutch Prevention Funds, Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland), World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), Statistics Netherlands (The Netherlands), Health Research Fund (FIS) - Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Regional Governments of Andalucía, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia and Navarra, and the Catalan Institute of Oncology - ICO (Spain), Swedish Cancer Society, Swedish Research Council and County Councils of Skåne and Västerbotten (Sweden), Cancer Research UK (14136 to EPIC-Norfolk, C8221/A29017 to EPIC-Oxford), Medical Research Council (1000143 to EPIC-Norfolk, MR/M012190/1 to EPIC-Oxford) (UK). IDIBELL acknowledges support from the Generalitat de Catalunya through the CERCA Program. The breast cancer study was funded by the French National Cancer Institute (grant number 2015-166). The colorectal cancer studies were funded by World Cancer Research Fund (reference: 2013/1002, reference: 313010, reference: 2014/1193, INCa, grant numbers 2009-139 and 2014-1-RT-02-CIRC-1) and by internal funds of the IARC. For the participants in the prostate cancer study, sample retrieval and preparation, and assays of metabolites were supported by Cancer Research UK (C8221/A19170), and funding for grant 2014/1183 was obtained from the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF UK), as part of the World Cancer Research Fund International grant programme. Mathilde His’ work reported here was undertaken during the tenure of a postdoctoral fellowship awarded by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, financed by the Fondation ARC. The funders were not involved in designing the study, collecting, analysing, and interpreting results, or writing and submitting the manuscript for publication., and HAL UVSQ, Équipe

Heinz Freisling, Susana Merino, Aurelio Barricarte, Augustin Scalbert, Domenico Palli, Eleni Peppa, Hanna Nyström, Klas Sjöberg, Magdalena Stepien, Antonia Trichopoulou, Aurora Perez-Cornago, Marina Lopez-Nogueroles, Gianluca Severi, Carlotta Sacerdote, Dragos Ciocan, Tilman Kühn, Elisabete Weiderpass, Cosmin Sebastian Voican, Manuela M. Bergmann, Gabriel Perlemuter, Eugene Jansen, Rudolf Kaaks, Michael F. Leitzmann, Julie A. Schmidt, Catherine Dong, Anna Karakatsani, María José Sánchez, Rosario Tumino, Bodil Ohlsson, H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Marc J. Gunter, Raul Zamora Ros, Guri Skeie, José Mª Huerta, Heiner Boeing, Agustín Lahoz, Vittorio Krogh, Pilar Amiano, Francesca Mancini, Anne Tjønneland, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Salvatore Panico, Mazda Jenab, Sofia Christakoudi, Vivian Viallon, Renée T. Fortner, Mårten Werner, Faculté de Médecine Paris-Saclay, AP-HP Hôpital Bicêtre (Le Kremlin-Bicêtre)-Université Paris-Saclay, Department of Radiology, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France, Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Saclay, Kræftens Bekæmpelse, DCS, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ, Centre International de Recherche sur le Cancer, CIRC, National Research Council, NRC, University of Maryland School of Public Health, SPH, Medical Research Council, MRC: 1000143, MR/M012190/1, Cancer Research UK, CRUK: 14136, C8221/A29017, World Cancer Research Fund, WCRF, University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Inserm, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF, Cancerfonden, Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport, VWS, Ligue Contre le Cancer, Vetenskapsrådet, VR, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, ISCIII, Deutsche Krebshilfe, Institut National Du Cancer, INCa: 2009‐139, 2014‐1‐RT‐02‐CIRC‐1, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l'Education Nationale, MGEN, NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, BRC, This work was supported in part by the French National Cancer Institute (L'Institut National du Cancer, INCa, grant numbers 2009‐139 and 2014‐1‐RT‐02‐CIRC‐1, PI: M. Jenab) and by internal funds of the IARC. The coordination of EPIC is financially supported by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and also by the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London which has additional infrastructure support provided by the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). The national cohorts are supported by: Danish Cancer Society (Denmark), Ligue Contre le Cancer, Institut Gustave Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l'Education Nationale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) (France), German Cancer Aid, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam‐Rehbruecke (DIfE), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (Germany), Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro‐AIRC‐Italy, Compagnia di SanPaolo and National Research Council (Italy), Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS), Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR), LK Research Funds, Dutch Prevention Funds, Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland), World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), Statistics Netherlands (The Netherlands), Health Research Fund (FIS)—Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Regional Governments of Andalucía, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia and Navarra and the Catalan Institute of Oncology—ICO (Spain), Swedish Cancer Society, Swedish Research Council and County Councils of Skåne and Västerbotten (Sweden), Cancer Research UK (14136 to EPIC‐Norfolk, C8221/A29017 to EPIC‐Oxford), Medical Research Council (1000143 to EPIC‐Norfolk, MR/M012190/1 to EPIC‐Oxford) (United Kingdom). The funding sources had no influence on the design of the study, the collection, analysis and interpretation of data, the writing of the report, or the decision to submit the article for publication. Funding information, and We would like to acknowledge Dr Krasimira Aleksandrova for input on the present manuscript, along with the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (Bilthoven, The Netherlands), the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Public Health Aarhus University (Aarhus, Denmark), University of Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom), for their contributions and ongoing support to the EPIC Study.

Salvatore Panico, Vivian Viallon, José María Huerta, Heinz Freisling, Miguel Rodríguez-Barranco, Christopher Millett, Marc J. Gunter, Paolo Vineis, Christina C. Dahm, Giovanna Masala, Nasser Laouali, Elisabete Weiderpass, Verena Katzke, Charlotta Rylander, Lousie Brunkwall, Yvonne T. van der Schouw, Franziska Jannasch, Aurelio Barricarte, Fernanda Rauber, Carlos Augusto Monteiro, Jie Zhang, Jeroen W.G. Derksen, Paula Jakszyn, Geneviève Nicolas, Reynalda Cordova, Karl-Heinz Wagner, Renata Bertazzi Levy, Corinne Casagrande, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Francesca Mancini, Stina Ramne, Stina Bodén, Eszter P. Vamos, Guri Skeie, Anne Tjønneland, Jytte Halkjær, Aurora Perez-Cornago, Bernard Srour, Inge Huybrechts, Nathalie Kliemann, Sara Grioni, Matthias B. Schulze, Alicia K Heath, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon (UNICANCER/CRCL), Centre Léon Bérard [Lyon]-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut Gustave Roussy (IGR), Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ, National Research Council, NRC, Medical Research Council, MRC: MR/M012190/1, Cancer Research UK, CRUK: C570/A16491, C8221/A19170, World Cancer Research Fund, WCRF, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Inserm, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, FAPESP: 2016/14302-7, Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, ÖAW, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF, Cancerfonden, Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport, VWS, Ligue Contre le Cancer, Vetenskapsrådet, VR, Fondation de France: 00081166, Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro, AIRC, Deutsche Krebshilfe, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l'Education Nationale, MGEN, School for Public Health Research, NIHR SPHR, The Public Health Policy Evaluation Unit is grateful for support from the NIHR School for Public Health Research . Swedish Cancer Society , Swedish Research Council and County Council of Västerbotten , Sweden., This work was partially financially supported by the Fondation de France (FDF, grant no. 00081166 , HF, RC)., Fernanda Rauber is a beneficiary of a postdoctoral fellowship from the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) , grant numbers 2016/14302-7 ., The national cohorts are supported by the following funders: Ligue Contre le Cancer , Institut Gustave-Roussy , Mutuelle Générale de l'Education Nationale , Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) (France), German Cancer Aid , German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (Germany), Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro-AIRC-Italy and National Research Council (Italy), Dutch Ministry of Public Health,Welfare and Sports (VWS) , Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR) , LK Research Funds , Dutch Prevention Funds , Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland), World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), Statistics Netherlands (The Netherlands), Health Research Fund (FIS-ISCIII) , the Regional Governments of Andalucía , Asturias , Basque Country, Murcia , Navarra , and the Catalan Institute of Oncology (Barceloan), Spain), Cancer Research UK ( 14136 to EPIC-Norfolk, C570/A16491 and C8221/A19170 to EPIC-Oxford), Medical Research Council ( 1000143 to EPIC-Norfolk, MR/M012190/1 to EPIC-Oxford) (UK)., Reynalda Cordova is a recipient of a DOC Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Institute of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna.This work was partially financially supported by the Fondation de France (FDF, grant no. 00081166, HF, RC).Fernanda Rauber is a beneficiary of a postdoctoral fellowship from the Funda??o de Amparo ? Pesquisa do Estado de S?o Paulo (FAPESP), grant numbers 2016/14302-7.The national cohorts are supported by the following funders: Ligue Contre le Cancer, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Mutuelle G?n?rale de l'Education Nationale, Institut National de la Sant? et de la Recherche M?dicale (INSERM) (France), German Cancer Aid, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (Germany), Dutch Ministry of Public Health,Welfare and Sports (VWS), Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR), LK Research Funds, Dutch Prevention Funds, Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland),World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), Statistics Netherlands (The Netherlands), Health Research Fund (FIS-ISCIII), the Regional Governments of Andaluc?a, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia, Navarra, and the Catalan Institute of Oncology (Barceloan), Spain), Cancer Research UK (14136 to EPIC-Norfolk, and C570/A16491 and C8221/A19170 to EPIC-Oxford), Medical Research Council (1000143 to EPIC-Norfolk, MR/M012190/1 to EPIC-Oxford) (UK).The Public Health Policy Evaluation Unit is grateful for support from the NIHR School for Public Health Research. Swedish Cancer Society, Swedish Research Council and County Council of V?sterbotten, Sweden.

Matthias B. Schulze, David Achaintre, Enrique Almanza-Aguilera, Rosario Tumino, Joseph A. Rothwell, Theron Johnson, Verena Katzke, Gianluca Severi, Carlotta Sacerdote, Nasser Laouali, Domenico Palli, Maria Santucci de Magistris, Augustin Scalbert, Raul Zamora-Ros, Daniela Ceballos-Sánchez, Giuliana Gargano, Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge [Barcelone] (IDIBELL), Centre International de Recherche contre le Cancer - International Agency for Research on Cancer (CIRC - IARC), Organisation Mondiale de la Santé / World Health Organization Office (OMS / WHO), Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Saclay, German Cancer Research Center - Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum [Heidelberg] (DKFZ), Universität Potsdam, Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, ISCIII: PI18/00191, European Regional Development Fund, ERDF, Funding: This research was funded by the by the Institute of Health Carlos III through the grant PI18/00191 (co-funded by European Regional Development Fund. ERDF, a way to build Europe), and from the 553/C/2019 project, funded by La Marató de TV-3. The national EPIC cohorts are supported by the French National Cancer Institute (L’Institut National du Cancer, INCA Grant No. 2009-139), Ligue contre le Cancer, Institut Gustave Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l’Education Nationale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) (France), German Cancer Aid, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), the Hellenic Health Foundation (Greece), Italian Association for Research on Cancer, and Compagnia San Paolo (Italy). IDIBELL acknowledges support from the Generalitat de Catalunya through the CERCA Program. E.A.-A. and R.Z.-R. wish to thank the 'Sara Borrell' (CD20/00071) and the 'Miguel Servet' (CP CPII20/00009) programs from the Institute of Health Carlos III (co-funded by the European Social Fund (ESF)—ESF investing in your future).

Verena Katzke, Anne M. May, Carlota Castro-Espin, Paula Jakszyn, Christina C. Dahm, Elisabete Weiderpass, Matthias B. Schulze, Guri Skeie, María José Sánchez, Catalina Bonet, Maria Dolores Chirlaque, Sanam Shah, Nasser Laouali, Dagfinn Aune, José Ramón Quirós, Sabina Sieri, Eva Ardanaz, Salvatore Panico, Gianluca Severi, Carlotta Sacerdote, Antonio Agudo, Stina Bodén, Melissa A. Merritt, Iger T Gram, Rosario Tumino, Krasimira Aleksandrova, Giovanna Masala, Elio Riboli, Renée Turzanski-Fortner, Pilar Amiano, Anne Tjønneland, Laure Dossus, Manon Cairat, Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut Gustave Roussy (IGR), Kræftens Bekæmpelse, DCS, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ, Centre International de Recherche sur le Cancer, CIRC, National Research Council, NRC, University of Maryland School of Public Health, SPH, Medical Research Council, MRC: MR/M012190/1, Cancer Research UK, CRUK: C8221/A29017, World Cancer Research Fund, WCRF, Imperial College London, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Inserm, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF, Cancerfonden, Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport, VWS, Ligue Contre le Cancer, Vetenskapsrådet, VR, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, ISCIII: PI15/00639, European Social Fund, ESF, Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro, AIRC, Deutsche Krebshilfe, Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu, RIVM, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l'Education Nationale, MGEN, European Regional Development Fund, ERDF: FI19/00197, NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, BRC, This work was funded by Instituto de Salud Carlos III through the project PI15/00639 (Co-funded by European Regional Development Fund [ERDF], a way to build Europe). C. Castro-Espin was funded by Instituto de Salud Carlos III through the Grant FI19/00197 (Co-funded by European Social Fund. ESF investing in your future). The coordination of EPIC is financially supported by International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and also by the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London which has additional infrastructure support provided by the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). The national cohorts are supported by: Danish Cancer Society (Denmark), Ligue Contre le Cancer, Institut Gustave Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l’Education Nationale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) (France), German Cancer Aid, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (Germany), Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro-AIRC-Italy, Compagnia di SanPaolo and National Research Council (Italy), Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS), Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR), LK Research Funds, Dutch Prevention Funds, Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland), World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), Statistics Netherlands (The Netherlands), Health Research Fund (FIS)—Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Regional Governments of Andalucía, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia and Navarra, and the Catalan Institute of Oncology—ICO (Spain), Swedish Cancer Society, Swedish Research Council and County Councils of Skåne and Västerbotten (Sweden), Cancer Research UK (14136 to EPIC-Norfolk, C8221/A29017 to EPIC-Oxford), Medical Research Council (1000143 to EPIC-Norfolk, MR/M012190/1 to EPIC-Oxford) (United Kingdom). The funders of this study had no role in the decisions about the analysis or interpretation of the data, or preparation, review or approval of the manuscript., and We thank CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya for institutional support. We also thank the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands, for their contribution and ongoing support to the EPIC Study.

Joseph A. Rothwell, Giovanna Masala, José María Huerta, Aurora Perez-Cornago, Elisabete Weiderpass, Anja Olsen, Magritt Brustad, Claudia Agnoli, Corinne Casagrande, Guri Skeie, Ulrika Ericson, Verena Katzke, Mazda Jenab, Christina C. Dahm, Anne Tjønneland, Geneviève Nicolas, Rudolf Kaaks, Inge Huybrechts, Veronika Fedirko, Carlotta Sacerdote, Neil Murphy, Maria Wennberg, Veronique Chajes, Jeroen W.G. Derksen, Matthias B. Schulze, Elom K. Aglago, Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Alicia K Heath, Pilar Amiano, Salvatore Panico, Paula Jakszyn, Rosario Tumino, Marc J. Gunter, Inger T. Gram, María José Sánchez, Centre International de Recherche contre le Cancer - International Agency for Research on Cancer (CIRC - IARC), Organisation Mondiale de la Santé / World Health Organization Office (OMS / WHO), Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Saclay, 1000143, MR/M012190/1, Kræftens Bekæmpelse, DCS, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ, Centre International de Recherche sur le Cancer, CIRC, National Research Council, NRC, University of Maryland School of Public Health, SPH, Cancer Research UK, CRUK: 14136, C8221/A29017, World Cancer Research Fund, WCRF, Imperial College London, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Inserm, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF, Cancerfonden, Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport, VWS, Ligue Contre le Cancer, Vetenskapsrådet, VR, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, ISCIII, Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro, AIRC, Deutsche Krebshilfe, Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu, RIVM, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l'Education Nationale, MGEN, NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, BRC, World Cancer Research Fund, Grant/Award Number: WCRF 2013/1002 Funding information trans, The authors would like to thank the EPIC study participants and staff for their valuable contribution to this research. The authors would also like to thank Ms Beatrice Vozar, Mr Bertrand Hemon and Ms Carine Biessy for the analysis of plasma samples, and the preparation of the databases. The coordination of EPIC is financially supported by International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and also by the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London which has additional infrastructure support provided by the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). The national cohorts are supported by: Danish Cancer Society (Denmark), Ligue Contre le Cancer, Institut Gustave Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l'Education Nationale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) (France), German Cancer Aid, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Institute of Human Nutrition PotsdamRehbruecke (DIfE), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (Germany), Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro‐AIRC‐Italy, Compagnia di SanPaolo and National Research Council (Italy), Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS), Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR), LK Research Funds, Dutch Prevention Funds, Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland), World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), Statistics Netherlands (The Netherlands), Health Research Fund (FIS)—Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Regional Governments of Andalucía, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia and Navarra, and the Catalan Institute of Oncology—ICO (Spain), Swedish Cancer Society, Swedish Research Council and County Councils of Skåne and Västerbotten (Sweden), Cancer Research UK (14136 to EPIC‐Norfolk, C8221/A29017 to EPIC‐Oxford), MedicalResearch Council (1000143 to EPIC‐Norfolk, MR/M012190/1 to EPIC‐Oxford). (United Kingdom), the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands. The EPIC‐Norfolk study (DOI 10.22025/2019.10.105.00004) has received funding from the Medical Research Council (MR/N003284/1, MC‐PC_13048 and MC‐UU_12015/1). We are grateful to all the participants who have been part of the project and to the many members of the study teams at the University of Cambridge who have enabled this research. The authors would like to acknowledge the use of data and samples from EPIC centres in Cambridge, France, Asturias, and Navarro. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the article. Our study was funded by a grant from the World Cancer Research Fund to Marc Gunter (Grant number: WCRF 2013/1002)., Ligue Contre le Cancer, Institut Gustave Roussy, Mutuelle G?n?rale de l'Education Nationale, Institut National de la Sant? et de la Recherche M?dicale (INSERM) (France), Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro-AIRC-Italy, Compagnia di SanPaolo and National Research Council (Italy), Health Research Fund (FIS)?Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Regional Governments of Andaluc?a, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia and Navarra, and the Catalan Institute of Oncology?ICO (Spain), Swedish Cancer Society, Swedish Research Council and County Councils of Sk?ne and V?sterbotten (Sweden), Cancer Research UK (14136 to EPIC-Norfolk, C8221/A29017 to EPIC-Oxford), MedicalResearch Council (1000143 to EPIC-Norfolk, and MR/M012190/1 to EPIC-Oxford). (United Kingdom), the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands. The EPIC-Norfolk study (DOI 10.22025/2019.10.105.00004) has received funding from the Medical Research Council (MR/N003284/1, MC-PC_13048 and MC-UU_12015/1). We are grateful to all the participants who have been part of the project and to the many members of the study teams at the University of Cambridge who have enabled this research. The authors would like to acknowledge the use of data and samples from EPIC centres in Cambridge, France, Asturias, and Navarro. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the article. Our study was funded by a grant from the World Cancer Research Fund to Marc Gunter (Grant number: WCRF 2013/1002).

Amanda J. Cross, Kristin Benjaminsen Borch, Renée T. Fortner, Vittorio Simeon, Paul Brennan, Guri Skeie, Elio Riboli, Rosario Tumino, Elisabete Weiderpass, Gianluca Severi, Carlotta Sacerdote, Kim Overvad, Manuela M. Bergmann, Isabel Drake, Sara Grioni, Panagiota Pagoni, Giovanna Masala, Pietro Ferrari, Heinz Freisling, Matthias B. Schulze, Maria Dolores Chirlaque, Pilar Amiano, Mattias Johansson, Ioanna Tzoulaki, Konstantinos K. Tsilidis, Timothy J. Key, J. Ramón Quirós, Eva Ardanaz, Antonio Agudo, Neil Murphy, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Christel Häggström, Sofia Christakoudi, Rudolf Kaaks, Merete Ellingjord-Dale, Sophia Harlid, Charlotta Rylander, Tanja Stocks, Anne Tjønneland, Fanny Artaud, Laure Dossus, Jytte Halkjær, Miguel Rodríguez-Barranco, Aurora Perez-Cornago, David C. Muller, Centre International de Recherche contre le Cancer - International Agency for Research on Cancer (CIRC - IARC), Organisation Mondiale de la Santé / World Health Organization Office (OMS / WHO), Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Saclay, Kræftens Bekæmpelse, DCS German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ Centre International de Recherche sur le Cancer, CIRC National Research Council, NRC Medical Research Council, MRC: MC_UU_00011/6, MR/M012190/1 Cancer Research UK, CRUK: C570/A16491, C8221/A19170 World Cancer Research Fund, WCRF European Commission, EC Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Inserm Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF Cancerfonden Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport, VWS Ligue Contre le Cancer Vetenskapsrådet, VR Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro, AIRC Deutsche Krebshilfe Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu, RIVM Institut Gustave-Roussy Mutuelle Générale de l'Education Nationale, MGEN NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, BRC Fondation Gustave Roussy, The authors thank the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands, for their contribution and ongoing support to the EPIC study. The coordination of EPIC is financially supported by the European Commission (DG-SANCO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The national cohorts are supported by Danish Cancer Society (Kr?ftens Bek?mpelse) (Denmark), Ligue Contre le Cancer, Institut Gustave Roussy, Mutuelle G?n?rale de l'Education Nationale, Institut National de la Sant? et de la Recherche M?dicale (INSERM) (France), German Cancer Aid (Deutsche Krebshilfe), German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium f?r Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) (Germany), Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro-AIRC-Italy and National Research Council (Italy), Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS), Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR), LK Research Funds, Dutch Prevention Funds, Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland), World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), Statistics Netherlands (The Netherlands), Health Research Fund (FIS-ISCIII), Regional Governments of Andaluc?a, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia, Navarra, and the Catalan Institute of Oncology (Barcelona) (Spain), Swedish Cancer Society (Cancerfonden), Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsr?det), County Councils of Sk?ne and V?sterbotten (Sweden), Cancer Research UK (C570/A16491 and C8221/A19170 to EPIC-Oxford), Medical Research Council (MR/M012190/1 to EPIC-Oxford) (United Kingdom). Panagiota Pagoni is funded by Medical Research Council (grant reference MC_UU_00011/6). Infrastructure support for the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Imperial College London (UK) was provided by the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). The funders had no role in the design and conduct of the study, the collection, analysis and interpretation of the data, or the preparation, review and approval of the manuscript, or in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication., The authors thank the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands, for their contribution and ongoing support to the EPIC study. The coordination of EPIC is financially supported by the European Commission (DG‐SANCO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The national cohorts are supported by Danish Cancer Society (Kræftens Bekæmpelse) (Denmark), Ligue Contre le Cancer, Institut Gustave Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l'Education Nationale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) (France), German Cancer Aid (Deutsche Krebshilfe), German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) (Germany), Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro‐AIRC‐Italy and National Research Council (Italy), Health Research Fund (FIS‐ISCIII), Regional Governments of Andalucía, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia, Navarra, and the Catalan Institute of Oncology (Barcelona) (Spain), Swedish Cancer Society (Cancerfonden), Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), County Councils of Skåne and Västerbotten (Sweden), Cancer Research UK (C570/A16491 and C8221/A19170 to EPIC‐Oxford), Medical Research Council (MR/M012190/1 to EPIC‐Oxford) (United Kingdom). Panagiota Pagoni is funded by Medical Research Council (grant reference MC_UU_00011/6). Infrastructure support for the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Imperial College London (UK) was provided by the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). The funders had no role in the design and conduct of the study, the collection, analysis and interpretation of the data, or the preparation, review and approval of the manuscript, or in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication., Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Cancer Research UK, Grant/Award Numbers: C570/A16491, C8221/A19170, Cancerfonden, Catalan Institute of Oncology Barcelona, Centre International de Recherche sur le Cancer, County Council of Skåne Sweden, County Council of Västerbotten Sweden, Deutsche Krebshilfe, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Directorate‐General for Health and Consumers, Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS), Dutch Prevention Funds, Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland), Health Research Fund (FIS‐ISCIII) Spain, Institut Gustave‐Roussy, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Kræftens Bekæmpelse, Ligue Contre le Cancer, LK Research Funds, Medical Research Council, Grant/Award Numbers: MC_UU_00011/6, MR/M012190/1, Mutuelle Générale de l'Education Nationale, National Research Council Italy, Netherlands Cancer Registry, Regional Government of Andalucía, Regional Government of Asturias, Regional Government of Basque Country, Regional Government of Murcia, Regional Government of Navarra, Statistics Netherlands, Vetenskapsrådet, World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), Institut Gustave Roussy, International Agency for Research on Cancer, European Commission (DG‐SANCO) Funding information, Christakoudi, S., Pagoni, P., Ferrari, P., Cross, A. J., Tzoulaki, I., Muller, D. C., Weiderpass, E., Freisling, H., Murphy, N., Dossus, L., Turzanski Fortner, R., Agudo, A., Overvad, K., Perez-Cornago, A., Key, T. J., Brennan, P., Johansson, M., Tjonneland, A., Halkjaer, J., Boutron-Ruault, M. -C., Artaud, F., Severi, G., Kaaks, R., Schulze, M. B., Bergmann, M. M., Masala, G., Grioni, S., Simeon, V., Tumino, R., Sacerdote, C., Skeie, G., Rylander, C., Borch, K. B., Quiros, J. R., Rodriguez-Barranco, M., Chirlaque, M. -D., Ardanaz, E., Amiano, P., Drake, I., Stocks, T., Haggstrom, C., Harlid, S., Ellingjord-Dale, M., Riboli, E., Tsilidis, K. K., and Cancer Research UK

Ingegerd Johansson, David S. Lopez, Alicia K Heath, Amanda J. Cross, Anne Tjønneland, J. Ramón Quirós, Melissa A. Merritt, Paula Jakszyn, Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Pilar Amiano, Anne Kirstine Eriksen, Manuela M. Bergmann, Marc J. Gunter, Bernard Srour, David C. Muller, Piet A. van den Brandt, Matthias B. Schulze, Salvatore Panico, Claudia Agnoli, Pietro Ferrari, Marco Lukic, José María Huerta, Christina C. Dahm, Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Areti Papadopoulou, Aurelio Barricarte Gurrea, Rosario Tumino, María José Sánchez, Fulvio Ricceri, Nadia Bastide, Paolo Vineis, Ulrika Ericson, Eva Ardanaz, Gianluca Severi, Guri Skeie, Aurora Perez-Cornago, Nikos Papadimitriou, Emmanouil Bouras, Elisabete Weiderpass, Ellio Riboli, Ioanna Tzoulaki, Heiner Boeing, Stina Bodén, Giovanna Masala, Jeroen W.G. Derksen, Jonna Berntsson, Verena Katzke, Elena Critselis, Konstantinos K. Tsilidis, University of Ioannina, Maastricht University [Maastricht], Imperial College London, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA), International Agency for Cancer Research (IACR), German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke (DIfE), Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Saclay, University of Hawai'i [Honolulu] (UH), The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), University of Oxford [Oxford], University of Potsdam, The Arctic University of Norway (UiT), German Cancer Research Center - Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum [Heidelberg] (DKFZ), Umeå University, Università degli studi di Torino = University of Turin (UNITO), Lund University [Lund], Instituto de Salud Carlos III [Madrid] (ISC), Aarhus University [Aarhus], IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori [Milano], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment [Bilthoven] (RIVM), University of Naples Federico II, La Salle [Ramon Llull University], Utrecht University [Utrecht], Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence [Firenze] (UNIFI), Kræftens Bekæmpelse, DCS, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ, Centre International de Recherche sur le Cancer, CIRC, International Council of Ophthalmology, ICO, National Research Council, NRC, University of Maryland School of Public Health, SPH, Medical Research Council, MRC: MR/M012190/1, Cancer Research UK, CRUK: C8221/A29017, World Cancer Research Fund, WCRF: WCRF 2014/1180, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Inserm, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF, Cancerfonden, Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport, VWS, Ligue Contre le Cancer, Vetenskapsrådet, VR, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, ISCIII, Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro, AIRC, Deutsche Krebshilfe, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l'Education Nationale, MGEN, Funding This work was supported by the World Cancer Research Fund International Regular Grant Programme (WCRF 2014/1180 to Konstantinos K. Tsilidis). The coordination of EPIC is financially supported by International Agency for Research on Cancer and also by the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London which has additional infrastructure support provided by the National Institute for Health Research Imperial Biomedical Research Centre. The national cohorts are supported by the Danish Cancer Society (Denmark), Ligue Contre le Cancer, Institut Gustave Roussy, Mutuelle G?n?rale de l'Education Nationale, Institut National de la Sant? et de la Recherche M?dicale (INSERM) (France), German Cancer Aid, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (Germany), Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro-AIRC-Italy, Compagnia di SanPaolo and National Research Council (Italy), Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS), Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR), LK Research Funds, Dutch Prevention Funds, Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland), World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), Statistics Netherlands (The Netherlands), Health Research Fund (FIS)?Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Regional Governments of Andaluc?a, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia and Navarra, and the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) (Spain), Swedish Cancer Society, Swedish Research Council and County Councils of Sk?ne and V?sterbotten (Sweden), and Cancer Research UK (14136 to EPIC-Norfolk, C8221/A29017 to EPIC-Oxford) and Medical Research Council (1000143 to EPIC-Norfolk, MR/M012190/1 to EPIC-Oxford) (United Kingdom). Where authors are identified as personnel of the International Agency for Research on Cancer/World Health Organization, the authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this article and they do not necessarily represent the decisions, policy, or views of the International Agency for Research on Cancer/World Health Organization., Funding This work was supported by the World Cancer Research Fund International Regular Grant Programme ( WCRF 2014/1180 to Konstantinos K. Tsilidis). The coordination of EPIC is financially supported by International Agency for Research on Cancer and also by the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London which has additional infrastructure support provided by the National Institute for Health Research Imperial Biomedical Research Centre . The national cohorts are supported by the Danish Cancer Society (Denmark), Ligue Contre le Cancer , Institut Gustave Roussy , Mutuelle Générale de l’Education Nationale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) (France), German Cancer Aid , German Cancer Research Center ( DKFZ ), German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE), Federal Ministry of Education and Research ( BMBF ) (Germany), Dutch Ministry of Public Health , Welfare and Sports ( VWS ), Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR), LK Research Funds, Dutch Prevention Funds, Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland), World Cancer Research Fund ( WCRF ), Statistics Netherlands (The Netherlands), Health Research Fund (FIS)– Instituto de Salud Carlos III ( ISCIII ), Regional Governments of Andalucía, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia and Navarra, and the Catalan Institute of Oncology ( ICO ) (Spain), Swedish Cancer Society , Swedish Research Council and County Councils of Skåne and Västerbotten (Sweden), Epidemiologie, and RS: GROW - R1 - Prevention

Patrick Arveux, Elio Riboli, Carla H. van Gils, Marina Kvaskoff, Rudolf Kaaks, María José Sánchez, Kim Overvad, Pilar Amiano, Naomi E. Allen, Elisabete Weiderpass, Christina C. Dahm, Catalina Bonet, Carlo La Vecchia, Giovanna Masala, Amalia Mattiello, José Ramón Quirós, Manuela M. Bergmann, Matthias B. Schulze, Marc J. Gunter, Anna Karakatsani, Daniel Ángel Rodríguez-Palacios, Vivian Viallon, Valeria Pala, Ruth C. Travis, Renée T. Fortner, Fulvio Ricceri, Rosario Tumino, Antonia Trichopoulou, Evelyn M. Monninkhof, Anne Tjønneland, Laure Dossus, Agnès Fournier, Aurelio Barricarte Gurrea, Anika Hüsing, Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Saclay, Cancer Research Foundation in Northern Sweden Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport, VWS Deutsche Krebshilfe Cancer Research UK, CRUK: C8221/A19170, C570/A16491 Vetenskapsrådet, VR Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport, VWS Ligue Contre le Cancer German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF Kræftens Bekæmpelse, DCS German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro, AIRC National Research Council, NRC Mutuelle Générale de l'Education Nationale, MGEN Hellenic Health Foundation, HHF Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Inserm Fondation Gustave Roussy European Commission, EC Centre International de Recherche sur le Cancer, IARC RD06/0020 German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ Deutsche Krebshilfe Cancerfonden World Cancer Research Fund, WCRF: ERC‐2009‐AdG 232997 PI13/01162, PI13/00061 NordForsk Medical Research Council, MRC: MR/M012190/1, The coordination of EPIC is financially supported by the European Commission (DG‐SANCO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The national cohorts are supported by Danish Cancer Society (Denmark), Ligue Contre le Cancer, Institut Gustave Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l'Education Nationale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) (France), German Cancer Aid, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Deutsche Krebshilfe, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum and Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), the Hellenic Health Foundation (Greece), Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro‐AIRC‐Italy and National Research Council (Italy), Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS), Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR), LK Research Funds, Dutch Prevention Funds, Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland), World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), Statistics Netherlands (The Netherlands), ERC‐2009‐AdG 232997 and Nordforsk, Nordic Centre of Excellence programme on Food, Nutrition and Health (Norway), Health Research Fund (FIS), PI13/00061 to Granada, PI13/01162 to EPIC‐Murcia), Regional Governments of Andalucía, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia and Navarra, ISCIII RETIC (RD06/0020) (Spain), Swedish Cancer Society, Swedish Research Council and County Councils of Skåne and Västerbotten, The Cancer Research Foundation of Northern Sweden (Sweden), Cancer Research UK (C570/A16491 and C8221/A19170), Medical Research Council (MR/M012190/1) (EPIC‐Oxford, and United Kingdom). The EPIC‐Norfolk study (doi: 10.22025/2019.10.105.00004) has received funding from the Medical Research Council (MR/N003284/1 and MC‐UU_12015/1) and Cancer Research UK (C864/A14136). We are grateful to all the participants who have been part of the project and to the many members of the study teams at the University of Cambridge who have enabled this research. For information on how to submit an application for gaining access to EPIC data and/or biospecimens, please follow the instructions at http://epic.iarc.fr/access/index.php .

Alicia K Heath, Eirini Kouloura, Pilar Amiano, Joseph A. Rothwell, Marta Crous-Bou, Konstantinos K. Tsilidis, Melissa A. Merritt, Julie A. Schmidt, Lucie Lécuyer, María José Sánchez, Rosario Tumino, Domenico Palli, Hector C. Keun, Marc J. Gunter, Roel Vermeulen, Matthias B. Schulze, Inger T. Gram, Laure Dossus, Amalia Mattiello, Aurelio Barricarte Gurrea, Sandra Colorado-Yohar, Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Ruth C. Travis, Gianluca Severi, Carlotta Sacerdote, Claudia Agnoli, Naomi E. Allen, Elisabete Weiderpass, Alexandros P. Siskos, Carine Biessy, Vivian Viallon, Renée T. Fortner, Rudolf Kaaks, Niki Dimou, Sofia Christakoudi, Sabina Rinaldi, Sub Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis, IRAS OH Epidemiology Chemical Agents, dIRAS RA-2, International Agency for Cancer Research (IACR), Imperial College London, European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), University of Hawai'i [Honolulu] (UH), Nuffield Department of Population Health [Oxford], University of Oxford [Oxford], German Cancer Research Center - Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum [Heidelberg] (DKFZ), University Hospital of North Norway [Tromsø] (UNN), Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Saclay, University of Potsdam, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, University of Granada [Granada], CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Institute for Cancer Research, Prevention and Clinical Network (ISPRO), IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori [Milano], Provincial Health Authority (ASP 7) [Ragusa, Italy], University Hospital Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, University of Naples Federico II, Utrecht University [Utrecht], Kræftens Bekæmpelse, DCS, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ, Centre International de Recherche sur le Cancer, CIRC, Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences, APS, National Research Council, NRC, Imperial Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, ECMC, University of Maryland School of Public Health, SPH, Medical Research Council, MRC: MR/M012190/1, Cancer Research UK, CRUK: C19335/A21351, C8221/ A29017, World Cancer Research Fund, WCRF, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Inserm, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF, Cancerfonden, Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport, VWS, Ligue Contre le Cancer, Vetenskapsrådet, VR, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, ISCIII, Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro, AIRC, Deutsche Krebshilfe, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l'Education Nationale, MGEN, NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, BRC, This work was supported by Cancer Research UK (CRUK) (grant number C19335/A21351, to MJG and HK).The metabolomics infrastructure in the Division of Cancer, Imperial College London is supported by the Imperial College Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, the Imperial College Cancer Research UK Centre and the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (APS & HK). The coordination of EPIC is financially supported by International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and also by the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London which has additional infrastructure support provided by the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). The national cohorts are supported by: Danish Cancer Society (Denmark), Ligue Contre le Cancer, Institut Gustave Roussy, Mutuelle G?n?rale de l'Education Nationale, Institut National de la Sant? et de la Recherche M?dicale (INSERM) (France), German Cancer Aid, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Institute of Human Nutrition PotsdamRehbruecke (DIfE), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (Germany), Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro-AIRC-Italy, Compagnia di SanPaolo and National Research Council (Italy), Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS), Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR), LK Research Funds, Dutch Prevention Funds, Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland), World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), Statistics Netherlands (The Netherlands), Health Research Fund (FIS) - Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Regional Governments of Andaluc?a, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia and Navarra, and the Catalan Institute of Oncology - ICO (Spain), Swedish Cancer Society, Swedish Research Council and County Councils of Sk?ne and V?sterbotten (Sweden), Cancer Research UK (14136 to EPIC-Norfolk, C8221/A29017 to EPIC-Oxford), Medical Research Council (1000143 to EPIC-Norfolk, MR/M012190/1 to EPIC-Oxford). (United Kingdom)., The metabolomics infrastructure in the Division of Cancer, Imperial College London is supported by the Imperial College Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre , the Imperial College Cancer Research UK Centre and the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (APS & HK). The coordination of EPIC is financially supported by International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and also by the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics , School of Public Health , Imperial College London which has additional infrastructure support provided by the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) . The national cohorts are supported by: Danish Cancer Society (Denmark), Ligue Contre le Cancer , Institut Gustave Roussy , Mutuelle Générale de l'Education Nationale , Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) (France), Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS), Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR), LK Research Funds , Dutch Prevention Funds , Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland), World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) , Statistics Netherlands (The Netherlands), Health Research Fund (FIS) - Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) , Regional Governments of Andalucía, Asturias , Basque Country, Murcia and Navarra , and the Catalan Institute of Oncology - ICO (Spain), Swedish Cancer Society , Swedish Research Council and County Councils of Skåne and Västerbotten (Sweden), Cancer Research UK ( 14136 to EPIC-Norfolk, C8221/ A29017 to EPIC-Oxford), Medical Research Council ( 1000143 to EPIC-Norfolk, This work was supported by Cancer Research UK (CRUK) (grant number C19335/A21351 , to MJG and HK)., University of Oxford, University of Naples Federico II = Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Azienda Ospedalerio - Universitaria Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino = University Hospital Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Universidad de Granada = University of Granada (UGR), University of Potsdam = Universität Potsdam, HAL UVSQ, Équipe, Cancer Research UK, and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust- BRC Funding

José María Huerta, Salvatore Panico, Antonia Trichopoulou, Joseph A. Rothwell, Sabina Sieri, Anja Olsen, Christina C. Dahm, Ruth C. Travis, Audrey Gicquiau, Pilar Amiano, Elisabete Weiderpass, N. Charlotte Onland-Moret, Antonio Agudo, Anna Karakatsani, Isabelle Romieu, Paolo Vineis, Mathilde His, Elio Riboli, Marc J. Gunter, Guri Skeie, Tilman Kühn, Augustin Scalbert, Carla H. van Gils, Georgia Martimianaki, Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Anne Tjønneland, Heiner Boeing, Laure Dossus, Pietro Ferrari, Julie A. Schmidt, Rosario Tumino, Konstantinos K. Tsilidis, David Achaintre, Torkjel M. Sandanger, Agnès Fournier, Sofia Christakoudi, María José Sánchez, Vivian Viallon, Renée T. Fortner, Kim Overvad, Giovanna Masala, Sabina Rinaldi, J. Ramón Quirós, Gianluca Severi, Eva Ardanaz, [His,M, Viallon,V, Dossus,L, Gicquiau,A, Achaintre,D, Scalbert,A, Ferrari,P, Weiderpass,E, Gunter,MJ, Rinaldi,S] International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France. [Romieu,I] Centre for Research on Population Health, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico. [Onland-Moret,NC, van Gils,CH] Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands. [Dahm,CC, Overvad,K] Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. [Overvad,K] Department of Cardiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark. [Olsen,A, Tjønneland,A] Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark. [Tjønneland,A] University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. [Fournier,A, Rothwell,JA, Severi,G] CESP, Université Paris-Sud, UVSQ, INSERM, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France. [Fournier,A, Severi,G] Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France. [Kühn,T, Fortner,R] Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. [Boeing,H] Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE), Nuthetal, Germany. [Trichopoulou,A, Karakatsani,A, Martimianaki,G] Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece. [Karakatsani,A] Pulmonary Medicine Department, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 'ATTIKON' University Hospital, Haidari, Greece. [Masala,G] Cancer Risk Factors and Life-Style Epidemiology Unit, Institute for Cancer Research, Prevention and Clinical Network – ISPRO, Florence, Italy. [Sieri,S] Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Milan, Italy. [Tumino,R] Cancer Registry and Histopathology Department, 'M.P.Arezzo'Hospital, ASP Ragusa, Ragusa, Italy. [Vineis,P] Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine (IIGM), Turin, Italy. [Vineis,P] MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK. [Panico,S] Dipartimento di medicina clinica e chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy. [Nøst,TH, Sandanger,TM, Skeie,G] Department of Community Medicine, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromso, Norway. [Skeie,G] Nutritional Epidemiology Group, School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. [Quirós,JR] Public Health Directorate, Asturias, Spain. [Agudo,A] Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology-IDIBELL, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain. [Sánchez,MJ] Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública, Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain. [Sánchez,MJ, Amiano,P, Huerta,JM, Ardanaz,E] CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health CIBERESP, Madrid, Spain. [Amiano,P] Public Health Division of Gipuzkoa, BioDonostia Research Institute, San Sebastian, Spain. [Huerta,JM] Department of Epidemiology, Murcia Regional Health Council, IMIB-Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain. [Ardanaz,E] Navarra Public Health Institute, Pamplona, Spain. [Ardanaz,E] IdiSNA, Navarra Institute for Health Research, Pamplona, Spain. [Schmidt,JA, Travis,RC] Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. [Riboli,E, Tsilidis,KK, Christakoudi,S] Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, St Mary’s Campus, Norfolk Place, London, UK. [Tsilidis,KK] Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece. [Christakoudi,S] MRC Centre for Transplantation, King’s College London, Great Maze Pond, London, SE1 9RT, UK, This work was funded by the French National Cancer Institute (grant number 2015-166). The coordination of EPIC is financially supported by the European Commission (DG-SANCO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The national cohorts are supported by Danish Cancer Society (Denmark), Ligue Contre le Cancer, Institut Gustave Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l’Education Nationale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) (France), German Cancer Aid, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Deutsche Krebshilfe, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum and Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), the Hellenic Health Foundation (Greece), Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro-AIRC-Italy and National Research Council (Italy), Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS), Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR), LK Research Funds, Dutch Prevention Funds, Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland), World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), Statistics Netherlands (The Netherlands), European Research Council (ERC-2009-AdG 232997), and Nordforsk, Nordic Centre of Excellence Programme on Food, Nutrition and Health (Norway), Regional Governments of Andalucía, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia (no. 6236), Navarra, and the CERCA Program (Generalitat de Catalunya) (Spain), Swedish Cancer Society, Swedish Research Council and County Councils of Skåne and Västerbotten (Sweden), and Cancer Research UK (14136 to EPIC-Norfolk, and C570/A16491 and C8221/A19170 to EPIC-Oxford), Medical Research Council (1000143 to EPIC-Norfolk, MR/M012190/1 to EPIC-Oxford) (United Kingdom).

J. Ramón Quirós, N. Charlotte Onland-Moret, Anna Karakatsani, Marina Kvaskoff, Raina N. Fichorova, Pilar Amiano, Eva Lundin, Louise Hansen, Kathryn L. Terry, Sara Grioni, Kay-Tee Khaw, Leila Lujan-Barroso, Amalia Mattiello, Renée T. Fortner, Agnès Fournier, Linda J. Titus, Rudolf Kaaks, Sandra Colorado-Yohar, Anne Tjønneland, Timothy J. Key, Marc J. Gunter, Aurelio Barricarte, Shelley S. Tworoger, Laure Dossus, Britton Trabert, Naoko Sasamoto, Inger T. Gram, David C. Muller, Hanna Sartor, Bernard Rosner, Allison F. Vitonis, Francesca Mancini, Eleni Peppa, Valentina Fiano, María José Sánchez, Heiner Boeing, Daniel W. Cramer, Ana Babic, Hidemi S. Yamamoto, Rosario Tumino, Nicolas Wentzensen, Domenico Palli, Annika Idahl, Elisabete Weiderpass, Antonia Trichopoulou, Elio Riboli, Sasamoto, Naoko [0000-0002-4526-2181], Tjønneland, Anne [0000-0003-4385-2097], Tumino, Rosario [0000-0003-2666-414X], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, [Sasamoto,N, Vitonis,AF, Cramer,DW, Terry,KL] Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, USA. [Babic,A] Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA. [Rosner,BA] Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. [Fortner,RT, Kaaks,R] Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. [Yamamoto,H, Fichorova,RN] Laboratory of Genital Tract Biology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.[Titus,LJ] Departments of Epidemiology and Pediatrics, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Hanover, NH, USA. [Tjønneland,A, Hansen,L] Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark. [Tjønneland,A] Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. [Kvaskoff,M, Fournier,A, Mancini,FR] CESP, Fac. de médecine - Univ. Paris-Sud, Fac. de médecine - UVSQ, INSERM, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France. [Kvaskoff,M, Mancini,FR] Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France. [Boeing,H] Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany. [Trichopoulou,A, Peppa,E, Karakatsani,A] Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece. [Trichopoulou,A] WHO Collaborating Center for Nutrition and Health, Unit of Nutritional Epidemiology and Nutrition in Public Health, Dept. of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. [Karakatsani,A] 2nd Pulmonary Medicine Department, School of Medicine, 'ATTIKON' University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Haidari, Greece. [Palli,D] Cancer Risk Factors and Life-Style Epidemiology Unit, Institute for Cancer Research, Prevention and Clinical Network - ISPRO, Florence, Italy. [Grioni,S] Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Milano, Italy. [Mattiello,A] Dipartimento Di Medicina Clinica E Chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy. [Tumino,R] Cancer Registry and Histopathology Department, 'Civic - M.P. Arezzo'Hospital, ASP, Ragusa, Italy. [Fiano,V] Unit of Cancer Epidemiology– CeRMS, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy. [Onland-Moret,NC] Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands. [Weiderpass,E, Gunter,M, Dossus,L] International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France. [Gram,IT] Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. [Quirós,JR] Public Health Directorate, Asturias, Spain. [Lujan-Barroso,L] Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO-IDIBELL), L’ Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain. [Sánchez,MJ] Andalusian School of Public Health (EASP), Granada, Spain. [Sánchez,MJ] Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria de Granada (ibs. GRANADA). Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain. [Sánchez,MJ, Colorado-Yohar,S, Barricarte,A, Amiano,P] CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain. [Colorado-Yohar,S] Department of Epidemiology, Murcia Regional Health Council, IMIB-Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain. [Colorado-Yohar,S] Research Group on Demography and Health, National Faculty of Public Health, University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. [Barricarte,A] Navarra Public Health Institute, Navarra Institute for Health Research (IdiSNA), Pamplona, Spain. [Amiano,P] Public Health Division of Gipuzkoa, BioDonostia Research Institute, San Sebastian, Spain. [Idahl,A] Department of Clinical Sciences, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. [Lundin,E] Department of Medical Biosciences, Pathology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. [Sartor,H] Department of Medical Imaging and Physiology, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden. [Sartor,H] Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. [Khaw,KT] Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. [Key,TJ] Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. [Muller,D, Riboli,E] Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK. [Trabert,B, Wentzensen,N] Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Washington, D.C, USA. [Tworoger,SS] Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, USA. [Tworoger,SS, Terry,KL] Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA., Research reported in this publication was supported by U.S. National Institutes of Health under the following award numbers: R01 CA193965 (to K.L. Terry), R01 CA 158119 and R35 CA197605 (to D.W. Cramer), P01 CA087969 (to S.S. Tworoger), UM1 CA186107, R01 CA49449, UM1 CA176726, R01 CA67262, and supported in part by the intramural research program of the U.S. National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services. The coordination of EPIC is financially supported by the European Commission (DG-SANCO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The national cohorts are supported by Danish Cancer Society (Denmark), Ligue Contre le Cancer, Institut Gustave Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l’Education Nationale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) (France), German Cancer Aid, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Deutsche Krebshilfe, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum and Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), the Hellenic Health Foundation (Greece), Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro-AIRC-Italy and National Research Council (Italy), Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS), Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR), LK Research Funds, Dutch Prevention Funds, Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland), World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), Statistics Netherlands (The Netherlands), ERC-2009-AdG 232997 and Nordforsk, Nordic Centre of Excellence programme on Food, Nutrition and Health (Norway), Health Research Fund (FIS), PI13/00061 to Granada, PI13/01162 to EPIC-Murcia), Regional Governments of Andalucía, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia and Navarra, ISCIII RETIC (RD06/0020) (Spain), Swedish Cancer Society, Swedish Research Council and County Councils of Skåne and Västerbotten, The Cancer Research Foundation of Northern Sweden (Sweden), Cancer Research UK (14136 to EPIC-Norfolk, and C570/A16491 and C8221/A19170 to EPIC-Oxford), Medical Research Council (1000143 to EPIC-Norfolk, MR/M012190/1 to EPIC-Oxford) (United Kingdom).

Lassale, Camille, Gunter, Marc J., Romaguera, Dora, Peelen, Linda M., Van der Schouw, Yvonne T., Beulens, Joline W. J., Freisling, Heinz, Muller, David C., Ferrari, Pietro, Huybrechts, Inge, Fagherazzi, Guy, Boutron-Ruault, Marie-Christine, Affret, Aurelie, Overvad, Kim, Dahm, Christina C., Olsen, Anja, Roswall, Nina, Tsilidis, Konstantinos K., Katzke, Verena A., Kuehn, Tilman, Buijsse, Brian, Quiros, Jose-Ramon, Sanchez-Cantalejo, Emilio, Etxezarreta, Nerea, Maria Huerta, Jose, Barricarte, Aurelio, Bonet, Catalina, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Key, Timothy J., Trichopoulou, Antonia, Bamia, Christina, Lagiou, Pagona, Palli, Domenico, Agnoli, Claudia, Tumino, Rosario, Fasanelli, Francesca, Panico, Salvatore, Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. Bas, Boer, Jolanda M. A., Sonestedt, Emily, Nilsson, Lena Maria, Renstrom, Frida, Weiderpass, Elisabete, Skeie, Guri, Lund, Eiliv, Moons, Karel G. M., Riboli, Elio, Tzoulaki, Ioanna, Khaw, Kay-Tee [0000-0002-8802-2903], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Epidemiology and Data Science, EMGO - Lifestyle, overweight and diabetes, Lassale, Camille, Gunter, Marc J, Romaguera, Dora, Peelen, Linda M, Van der Schouw, Yvonne T, Beulens, Joline W. J, Freisling, Heinz, Muller, David C, Ferrari, Pietro, Huybrechts, Inge, Fagherazzi, Guy, Boutron Ruault, Marie Christine, Affret, Aurélie, Overvad, Kim, Dahm, Christina C, Olsen, Anja, Roswall, Nina, Tsilidis, Konstantinos K, Katzke, Verena A, Kühn, Tilman, Buijsse, Brian, Quirós, José Ramón, Sánchez Cantalejo, Emilio, Etxezarreta, Nerea, Huerta, José María, Barricarte, Aurelio, Bonet, Catalina, Khaw, Kay Tee, Key, Timothy J, Trichopoulou, Antonia, Bamia, Christina, Lagiou, Pagona, Palli, Domenico, Agnoli, Claudia, Tumino, Rosario, Fasanelli, Francesca, Panico, Salvatore, Bueno de Mesquita, H. Ba, Boer, Jolanda M. A, Sonestedt, Emily, Nilsson, Lena Maria, Renström, Frida, Weiderpass, Elisabete, Skeie, Guri, Lund, Eiliv, Moons, Karel G. M, Riboli, Elio, Tzoulaki, Ioanna, [Lassale,C, Gunter,MJ, Romaguera,D, Tsilidis,KK, Riboli,E, Tzoulaki,I] Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, United Kingdom. [Romaguera,D] Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Palma (IdISPa), Palma de Mallorca, Spain. [Romaguera,D, Quirós,J, Sánchez-Cantalejo,E, Etxezarreta,N, Huerta,JM, Barricarte,A, Bonet,C] CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain. [Peelen,LM, Schouw,ITV, Beulens,JWJ, Moons,KGM] Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.[Freisling,H, Muller,DC, Ferrari,P, Huybrechts,I] International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France. [Fagherazz,G, Boutron-Ruault,M, Affret,A] Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population, Health, Villejuif, France. Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France. Paris South University, Unité Mixte de Recherche, Villejuif, France. [Overvad,K, Dahm,CC] Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. [Olsen,A, Roswall,N] Danish Cancer Society, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Copenhagen, Denmark. [Tsilidis,KK] German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Heidelberg, Germany. [Katzke,VA, Kühn,T] Deutsches Institut für Ernährungsforschung Potsdam-Rehbrücke German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam, Germany. [Buijsse,B] Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece. [Quirós,R] Public Health Directorate, Asturias, Oviedo, Spain. [Sánchez-Cantalejo,E] Andalusian School of Public Health, Granada, Spain. [Etxezarreta,N] Public Health Direction and Biodonostia Basque Regional Health Department, San Sebastian, Spain. [Huerta,JM] Department of Epidemiology, Murcia Regional Health Council, Murcia, Spain. [Barricarte,A] Navarre Public Health Institute, Pamplona, Spain. [Bonet,C] Unit of Nutrition, Environment and Cancer, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain. [Khaw,K] University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Clinical Gerontology Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom. [Key,J] Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. [Trichopoulou,A, Bamia,C, Lagiou,P] Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece. Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece. [Palli,D] Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute—ISPO, Florence, Italy. [Agnoli,C] Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine, Foundation of the Carlo Besta Neurological Institute, Milan, Italy. [Tumino,R] Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, 'Civic MP Arezzo' Hospital, Ragusa, Italy. [Fasanelli,F] Human Genetics Foundation, Turin, Italy. [Bueno-de-Mesquita,HB, Boer,JMA] Center for Nutrition, Prevention and Health Services, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands. [Sonestedt,E] Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. [Nilsson,LM, Renström,F] Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Nutritional Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. [Weiderpass,E, Skeie,G, Lund,E] Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. [Weiderpass,E] Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway. Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Genetic Epidemiology Group, Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland., Funding: The coordination of EPIC is financially supported by the European Commission (DGSANCO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The national cohorts are supported by Danish Cancer Society (Denmark), Ligue Contre le Cancer, Institut Gustave Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l’Education Nationale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) (France), German Cancer Aid, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Deutsche Krebshilfe, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum and Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), the Hellenic Health Foundation (Greece), Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro-AIRC-Italy and National Research Council (Italy), Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS), Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR), LK Research Funds, Dutch Prevention Funds, Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland), World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), Statistics Netherlands (The Netherlands), Health Research Fund (FIS), PI13/00061 to Granada, Regional Governments of Andalucía, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia (no. 6236) and Navarra, ISCIII RETIC (RD06/0020) (Spain), Swedish Cancer Society, Swedish Research Council and County Councils of Skåne and Västerbotten (Sweden), Cancer Research UK (14136 to EPIC-Norfolk, and C570/ A16491 and C8221/A19170 to EPIC-Oxford), Medical Research Council (1000143 to EPIC-Norfolk, MR/ M012190/1 to EPIC-Oxford) (United Kingdom).

Marc J. Gunter, Ellen A. Struijk, Paul Brennan, Paolo Vineis, Christina Bamia, Guri Skeie, David C. Muller, M. Luisa Redondo, Cornelia Weikert, Salvatore Panico, Elena Molina-Portillo, Antonio Agudo, Rosario Tumino, Françoise Clavel, W M Monique Verschuren, Petra H.M. Peeters, Olle Melander, Jone M. Altzibar, Heiner Boeing, H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Ruth C. Travis, Elisabete Weiderpass, Gunnar Engström, Malin Sund, Teresa Norat, Anne Tjønneland, Manuela M. Bergmann, Philippos Orfanos, Laureen Dartois, Nicholas J. Wareham, Mattias Johansson, Elio Riboli, Kuanrong Li, Kay-Tee Khaw, Neil Murphy, Eiliv Lund, Antonia Trichopoulou, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Domenico Palli, Rudolf Kaaks, Konstantinos K. Tsilidis, Lluís Cirera, Pietro Ferrari, Valeria Pala, Timothy J. Key, Kim Overvad, Eva Ardanaz, Muller, David C, Murphy, Neil, Johansson, Mattia, Ferrari, Pietro, Tsilidis, Konstantinos K, Boutron Ruault, Marie Christine, Clavel, Francoise, Dartois, Laureen, Li, Kuanrong, Kaaks, Rudolf, Weikert, Cornelia, Bergmann, Manuela, Boeing, Heiner, Tjønneland, Anne, Overvad, Kim, Redondo, M. Luisa, Agudo, Antonio, Molina Portillo, Elena, Altzibar, Jone M, Cirera, Lluí, Ardanaz, Eva, Khaw, Kay Tee, Wareham, Nicholas J, Key, Timothy J, Travis, Ruth C, Bamia, Christina, Orfanos, Philippo, Trichopoulou, Antonia, Palli, Domenico, Pala, Valeria, Tumino, Rosario, Vineis, Paolo, Panico, Salvatore, Bueno de Mesquita, H. Ba, Verschuren, W. M. Monique, Struijk, Ellen A, Peeters, Petra H, Engström, Gunnar, Melander, Olle, Sund, Malin, Weiderpass, Elisabete, Skeie, Guri, Lund, Eiliv, Norat, Teresa, Gunter, Marc, Riboli, Elio, Brennan, Paul, [Muller,DC, Johansson,M, Ferrari,P, Brennan,P] International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France. [Murphy,N, Vineis,P, Bueno-de-Mesquita,HB, Peeters,PH, Norat,T, Gunter,M, Riboli,E] School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK] [Tsilidis,KK] Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK. [Boutron-Ruault,M] Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France. [Boutron-Ruault,M, Clavel,F, Dartois,L] Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France. [Boutron-Ruault,M, Dartois,L, Dartois,L] Inserm, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Villejuif, France. [Li,K, Kaaks,R] Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. [Weikert,C, Bergmann,M, Boeing,H] German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke (DifE), Nuthetal, Germany. [Tjønneland,A] Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark. [Overvad,K] Department of Public Health, Section for Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. [Redondo,ML] Public Health Directorate, Asturias, Spain. [Agudo,A] Unit of Nutrition, Environment and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain. [Molina-Portillo,E] Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública, Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria GRANADA, Hospitales Universitarios de Granada/Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain. [Molina-Portillo,E, Altzibar,JM, Cirera,M, Ardanaz,E] Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública-CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain. [Altzibar,JM] Public Health Division of Gipuzkoa-BIODONOSTIA, Basque Regional Health Department, Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain. [Cirera, L] Department of Epidemiology, Murcia Regional Health Council, IMIB-Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain. Department of Health and Social Sciences, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain. Department of Health and Social Sciences, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain. [Ardanaz,E] Navarra Public Health Institute, Pamplona, Spain. Navarra Institute for Health Research (IdiSNA) Pamplona, Pamplona, Spain. [Khaw,K] School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. [Wareham,NJ] MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. [Key,TJ, Travis,RC] Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. [Bamia,C, Orfanos,P, Trichopoulou,A] Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece. Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece. [Palli,D] Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute (ISPO), Florence, Italy. [Pala,V] Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy. [Tumino,R] Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, 'Civic - M. P. Arezzo' Hospital, ASP Ragusa, Ragusa, Italy. [Vineis,P] Human Genetics Foundation (HuGeF), Torino, Italy. [Panico,S] Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Federico II University, Naples, Italy. [Bueno-de-Mesquita,HB, Verschuren,WMM] Department for Determinants of Chronic Diseases (DCD), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands. [Bueno-de-Mesquita,HB] Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [Verschuren,WMM, Struijk,EA, Peeters,PH] Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands. [Engström,G] Department of Clinical Science, Malmö Lund University, Lund, Sweden. [Melander,O] Department of Clinical Sciences, Hypertension & Cardiovascular Disease, Clinical Research Centre, Malmö University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden. [Sund,M] Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Umea University, Umea, Sweden. [Weiderpass,E, Skeie,G, Lund,E] Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. [Weiderpass,E] Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway. Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Samfundet Folkhälsan, Helsinki, Finland. [Skeie,G, Lund,E] The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway., This work was supported by the French Social Affairs & Health Ministry, Department of Health (Direction Générale de la Santé). The work undertaken by David C Muller for this project was performed during the tenure of an IARC-Australia fellowship supported by Cancer Council Australia. Elio Riboli was supported by the Imperial College Biomedical Research Centre funded by the National Institute of Health Research of UK. The coordination of EPIC is financially supported by the European Commission (DG-SANCO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The national cohorts are supported by Danish Cancer Society (Denmark), Ligue Contre le Cancer, Institut Gustave Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l’Education Nationale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) (France), Deutsche Krebshilfe, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum and Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), the Hellenic Health Foundation (Greece), Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro-AIRC-Italy and National Research Council (Italy), Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS), Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR), LK Research Funds, Dutch Prevention Funds, Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland), World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), Statistics Netherlands (The Netherlands), Nordic Centre of xcellence programme on Food, Nutrition and Health. (Norway), Health Research Fund (FIS), PI13/00061 to Granada, Regional Governments of Andalucía, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia (no. 6236) and Navarra, ISCIII RETIC (RD06/0020) (Spain), Swedish Cancer Society, Swedish Scientific Council and County Councils of Skåne and Västerbotten (Sweden), Cancer Research UK (14136 to EPIC-Norfolk, C570/A16491 to EPIC-Oxford),Medical Research Council (1000143 to EPIC-Norfolk) (United Kingdom). The sponsors did not have any input into study design, study conduct, data collection, analysis, or interpretation nor did they influence the preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript., Khaw, Kay-Tee [0000-0002-8802-2903], Wareham, Nicholas [0000-0003-1422-2993], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

María José Sánchez, Jennifer Ose, Antonia Trichopoulou, J. Ramón Quirós, Marc J. Gunter, Xavier Castellsagué, Carlotta Sacerdote, Inger T. Gram, H B As Bueno-de-Mesquita, Johanna Ekström, Ruth C. Travis, Joakim Dillner, Carmen Navarro, Silvia de Sanjosé, Annika Idahl, Renée T. Fortner, Domenico Palli, Noémie Travier, Amalia Mattiello, David Lindquist, Annika Steffen, Elisabete Weiderpass, Christian Munk, Kay-Tee Khaw, Aurelio Barricarte, Elio Riboli, Michael Pawlita, Petra H.M. Peeters, Valeria Pala, Eiliv Lund, Philippos Orfanos, Sabina Rinaldi, F. Xavier Bosch, Pagona Lagiou, Kim Overvad, Nerea Larrañaga, N. Margall, Sylvie Mesrine, Massimo Tommasino, Silvia Franceschi, Silvia Polidoro, Melissa A. Merritt, Tim Waterboer, Giovanna Masala, Agnès Fournier, Rosario Tumino, Esther Roura, Anne Tjønneland, Françoise Clavel-Chapelon, University Medical Center Utrecht, Imperial College Trust, [Roura,E, de Sanjosé,S, Bosch,FX, Castellsagué,X] Unit of Infections and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO)-IDIBELL, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. [Roura,E, Sánchez,MJ, Navarro,C, Barricarte,A, Larrañaga,N, Castellsagué,X] CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain. [Travier,N] Unit of Nutrition, Environment and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO)-IDIBELL, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. [Waterboer,T, Pawlita,M] Division of Molecular Diagnostics of Oncogenic Infections (F020), Research Program Infection, Inflammation and Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.[Pala,V] Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy. [Weiderpass, Dillner,J] Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. [Weiderpass,E, Gram,IT, Lund,E] Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. [Weiderpass,E] Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway. Genetic Epidemiology Group, Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland. [Margall,N] Microbiology Department, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. [Dillner,J] Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. [Tjønneland,A] Diet, Genes and Environment, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark. [Munk,C] Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark. [Palli,D, Masala,G] Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute–ISPO, Florence, Italy. [Khaw,K] School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. [Overvad,K] Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. [Clavel-Chapelon,F, Mesrine,S, Fournier,A] Inserm, Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Nutrition, Hormones and Women’s Health team, Villejuif, France. Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France.Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France. [Fortne,RT, Ose,J] Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. [Steffen,A] Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany. [Trichopoulou,A, Orfanos,P] Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece. [Lagiou,P, Orfanos,P] Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece. [Lagiou,P] Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, United States of America. [Tumino,R] Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, 'Civic—M.P. Arezzo' Hospital, Ragusa, Italy. [Sacerdote,C] Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy. Centre for Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention (CPO Piemonte), Turin, Italy. [Polidoro,S] Human Genetics Foundation (HuGeF), Turin, Italy. [Mattiello,A] Dipartimento Di Medicina Clinica E Chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy. [Peeters,PH] MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom. Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands. [Bueno-de-Mesquita,HB] Department for Determinants of Chronic Diseases (DCD), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands. Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands.[Bueno-de-Mesquita,HB, Merritt,MA, Gunter,MJ, Riboli,E] Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom. [Bueno-de-Mesquita,HB] Department of Social & Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[Quirós,JR] Public Health Directorate, Asturias, Spain. [Sánchez,MJ] Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública, Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Hospitales Universitarios de Granada/Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain. [Navarro,C] Department of Epidemiology, Murcia Regional Health Council, IMIB-Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain. Department of Health and Social Sciences, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain. [Barricarte,A] Navarra Public Health Institute, Pamplona, Spain. Navarra Institute for Health Research (IdiSNA), Pamplona, Spain. [Larrañaga,N] Public Health Division of Gipuzkoa, BIODonostia Research Institute, Basque Health Department, Bilbao, Spain. [Ekström,J] BBMRI.se Service Center for Southern Sweden, Lund University, Medicon Village, Lund, Sweden. [Lindquist,D] Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. [Idahl,A] Department of Clinical Sciences, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. [Travis,RC] Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. [Rinaldi,S, Tommasino,M, Franceschi,S] International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France., Funding: The work was partially supported by grants from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Spanish Government) (grants FIS PI08/1308, PI13/00053, RCESP C03/09, RTICESP C03/10, RTIC RD06/0020/0095, RD12/0036/0056, RD12/0036/0018, and CIBERESP) and from the Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca – Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalonian Government) (grants AGAUR 2005SGR00695, 2009SGR939 and 2009SGR126, 2014SGR1077, 2014SGR2016). The coordination of EPIC is financially supported by the European Commission (DG-SANCO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The national cohorts are supported by the Health Research Fund (FIS) of the Spanish Ministry of Health (Exp P10710130), Regional Governments of Andalucía, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia (no. 6236), Navarra and the Catalan Institute of Oncology, La Caixa (BM 06-130), RTICC-RD06/10091 (Spain), Danish Cancer Society (Denmark), Ligue contre le Cancer, Institut Gustave Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l’Education Nationale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) (France), Deutsche Krebshilfe, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum and Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), the Hellenic Health Foundation (Greece), Italian Association for Research on Cancer (AIRC) and National Research Council (Italy), Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS), Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR), LK Research Funds, Dutch Prevention Funds, Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland), World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) and Statistics Netherlands (The Netherlands), Swedish Cancer Society, Swedish Scientific Council and Regional Government of Skåne and Västerbotten (Sweden), Cancer Research UK, Medical Research Council (United Kingdom), and Norwegian Research Council, Norwegian Cancer Society, University of Tromso (Norway).