Circulating fatty acids and prostate cancer risk: individual participant meta-analysis of prospective studies

Francesca L Crowe1, Paul N Appleby1, Ruth C Travis1

  • 1Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (FLC, PNA, RCT, TJK); Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA (MB, GEG, IBK, MLN); Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH (TMB); National Institute for Public Health and the Environment - RIVM, Bilthoven, the Netherlands (HBB); Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands (HBB); School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (HBB); Nutrition and Metabolism Section and the Nutritional Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France (VC); Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health and Channing Division of Network Medicine, Boston, MA (JEC, MJS); Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (JEC, MJS); Department of Epidemiology, Murcia Regional Health Authority, Spain (MC); CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health CIBERESP, Spain (MC); Cancer Epidemiology Centre, Cancer Council Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia (DRE, GGG, GS); Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (DRE, GGG, GS); FOODplus Research Centre, Waite Campus, The University of Adelaide, Glen Osmond, South Australia, Australia (RAG); Center for Human Nutrition, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (SMH); Department of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center - DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany (RK); Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (IBK); Cancer Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI (LNK, SYP, LRW); Cancer Prevention Program, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hu

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