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Yikyung Park1, Sophia Wang, Cari M Kitahara

  • 1Yikyung Park, Cari M. Kitahara, Steven C. Moore, Amy Berrington de Gonzalez, D. Michal Freedman, Robert N. Hoover, Martha S. Linet, Mark Purdue, Catherine Schairer, and Patricia Hartge are with the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD. Sophia Wang and Leslie Bernstein are with the Division of Cancer Etiology, Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute and the City of Hope, Duarte, CA. Ellen T. Chang is with Health Sciences Practice, Exponent Inc, Menlo Park, CA. Alan J. Flint and Walter C. Willett are with the Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. J. Michael Gaziano, Howard D. Sesso, and Walter C. Willett are with the Division of Preventive Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA. Kim Robien is with Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Exercise Science, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University, Washington, DC. Emily White is with the Cancer Prevention Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle. Bradley J. Willcox is with the Pacific Health Research and Education Institute and Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, HI. Michael J. Thun is with the Department of Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Surveillance Research, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA.

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