Burden of Cancer in a Large Consortium of Prospective Cohorts in Europe

Konstantinos K Tsilidis¹, Nikos Papadimitriou¹, Despoina Capothanassi¹+25

• ¹Affiliations of authors: Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece (KKT, NP); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (KKT); Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece (KKT, DC, CB, PB, DT, AT); World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Food and Nutrition Policies, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (CB, VB, AT); International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO), Lyon, France (MJ, HF, IS); UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK (FK, MGO, AS); Department of Health Economics and Management, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany (AN); Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands (AN); Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (AT); Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (AMM); Public Health Directorate, Asturias, Spain (JRQ); Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Neurosciences (UPK) and Department of Biobank Research (SE), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden (UPK); Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and German Cancer Consortium (HB), Heidelberg, Germany (HB, BS, JMOM, AKD); Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany (HB); Network Aging Research (NAR), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany (JMOM); Department of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway (EBM, IN, GS, TW); Institute for Translational Epidemiology and Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY (PB); Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (DT); Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece (DT).