About the Authors

Stefan Nickels

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Alina Vrieling

Affiliations Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Department for Health Evidence, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Petra Seibold

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Judith Heinz

Affiliation Department of Cancer Epidemiology/Clinical Cancer Registry, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Nadia Obi

Affiliation Department of Cancer Epidemiology/Clinical Cancer Registry, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Dieter Flesch-Janys

Affiliations Department of Cancer Epidemiology/Clinical Cancer Registry, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Medical Biometrics and Epidemiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Jenny Chang-Claude

j.chang-claude@dkfz.de

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DFJ JCC. Performed the experiments: DFJ JCC. Analyzed the data: SN AV PS JH NO DFJ JCC. Wrote the paper: SN JCC.