About the Authors

Laura De Marco

gilliotos_demarco@yahoo.it

Affiliation Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, C.E.R.M.S., University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Anna Gillio-Tos

Affiliation Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, C.E.R.M.S., University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Valentina Fiano

Affiliation Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, C.E.R.M.S., University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Guglielmo Ronco

Affiliation Center for Oncologic Prevention, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Vittorio Krogh

Affiliation Epidemiology Unit, National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy

Domenico Palli

Affiliation Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute - ISPO, Florence, Italy

Salvatore Panico

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Federico II University, Naples, Italy

Rosario Tumino

Affiliation Cancer Registry, “Civile M.P. Arezzo” Hospital, Ragusa, Italy

Paolo Vineis

Affiliation Imperial College London, and University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Franco Merletti

Affiliations Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, C.E.R.M.S., University of Turin, Turin, Italy, Center for Oncologic Prevention, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Lorenzo Richiardi

Affiliations Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, C.E.R.M.S., University of Turin, Turin, Italy, Center for Oncologic Prevention, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Carlotta Sacerdote

Affiliation Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, C.E.R.M.S., University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LDM AGT LR. Performed the experiments: LDM VF. Analyzed the data: GR FM LR CS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GR VK DP SP RT PV. Wrote the paper: LDM AGT.