Amanda J. Cross, Kristin Benjaminsen Borch, Anne Kirstine Eriksen, Elio Riboli, José María Huerta, H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Giovanna Masala, Núria Sala, Anne Tjønneland, Anika Hüsing, Rudolf Kaaks, Sara Grioni, Anne M. May, Fanny Artaud, Antonia Trichopoulou, Pilar Amiano, Eleni Peppa, Marc J. Gunter, Timothy J. Key, Aurelio Barricarte Gurrea, Jonna Berntsson, Anna Karakatsani, Mazda Jenab, Elisabete Weiderpass, Isabel Drake, Christina C. Dahm, Torkjel M. Sandanger, Bethany Van Guelpen, Robin Reichmann, María José Sánchez, Guri Skeie, Konstantinos K. Tsilidis, Gianluca Severi, Carlotta Sacerdote, Sjoerd G. Elias, José Ramón Quirós, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Salvatore Panico, Krasimira Aleksandrova, Rosario Tumino, Sophia Harlid, Elom K. Aglago, [Aleksandrova,K, Reichmann,R] Nutrition, Immunity and Metabolism Senior Scientist Group, Department of Nutrition and Gerontology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE), Nuthetal, Germany. [Aleksandrova,K, Reichmann,R] Institute of Nutritional Science, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. [Aleksandrova,K] Department of Epidemiological Methods and Etiological Research, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Bremen, Germany. [Kaaks,R, Hüsing,A] Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. [Jenab,M, Weiderpass,E, Aglago,EK, Gunter,MJ] International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France. [Bueno-de-Mesquita,HB] National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands. [Bueno-de-Mesquita,HB, Cross,AJ, Tsilidis,KK, Riboli,E] Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK. [Dahm,CC] Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. [Eriksen,AK, Tjønneland,A] Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark. [Artaud,F, Boutron-Ruault,MC, Severi,G] CESP, Faculté de Medicine, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France. [Artaud,F, Severi,G] Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France. [Severi,G] Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica e Applicazioni 'G. Parenti' (DISIA), University of Florence, Florence, Italy. [Trichopoulou,A, Karakatsani,A, Peppa,E] Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece. [Karakatsani,A] 2nd Pulmonary Medicine Department, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 'ATTIKON' University Hospital, Haidari, Greece. [Panico,S] EPIC Centre of Naples, Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Chirurgia, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy. [Masala,G] 1Cancer Risk Factors and Lifestyle Epidemiology Unit, Institute for Cancer Research, Prevention and Clinical Network – ISPRO, Florence, Italy. [Grioni,S] Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Milan, Italy. [Sacerdote,C] Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, Città della Salute e della Scienza University-Hospital and Center for Cancer Prevention (CPO), Turin, Italy. [Tumino,R] Cancer Registry and Histopathology Department, Provincial Health Authority (ASP), Ragusa, Italy. [Elias,SG, May,AM] Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. [Borch,KB, Sandanger,TM, Skeie,G] Department of Community Medicine, Health Faculty, UiT-the Arctic university of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. [Sánchez,MJ] Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública (EASP), Granada, Spain. [Sánchez,MJ] Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain. [Sánchez,MJ, Huerta,JM, Gurrea,AB, Amiano,P] Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain. [Sánchez,MJ] Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain. [Huerta,JM] Department of Epidemiology, Murcia Regional Health Council, IMIB-Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain. [Sala,N] Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Translational Research Laboratory, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), Barcelona, Spain. [Sala,N] Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain. [Gurrea,AB] Navarra Public Health Institute, Pamplona, Spain. [Gurrea,AB] Navarra Institute for Health Research (IdiSNA), Pamplona, Spain. [Quirós,JR] Public Health Directorate, Asturias, Spain. [Amiano,P] Ministry of Health of the Basque Government, Public Health Division of Gipuzkoa, Biodonostia Health Research Institute, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. [Berntsson,J] Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Oncology and Pathology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. [Drake,I] Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. [van Guelpen,B, Harlid,S] Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. [van Guelpen,B] Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. [Key,T] Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. [Tsilidis,KK] Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece., This work was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) (grant AL 1784/3-1), which funded the research position of Dr. Aleksandrova for organizing study conduct and analysis. The coordination of EPIC is financially supported by the European Commission (DG-SANCO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The national cohorts are supported by Danish Cancer Society (Denmark), Ligue Contre le Cancer, Institut Gustave Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l’Education Nationale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) (France), Deutsche Krebshilfe, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ) and Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (Germany), Hellenic Health Foundation (Greece), Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro-AIRC-Italy and National Research Council (Italy), Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS), Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR), LK Research Funds, Dutch Prevention Funds, Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland), World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), Statistics Netherlands (The Netherlands), Health Research Fund (FIS), Instituto de salud Carlos III PI13/00061 to Granada, PI13/ 01162 to EPIC-Murcia, Regional Governments of Andalucía, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia (no. 6236), Navarra and Catalonia (Catalan Institute of Oncology – ICO-IDIBELL) (Spain), Swedish Cancer Society, Swedish Research Council and County Councils of Skåne and Västerbotten (Sweden), and Cancer Research UK (C864/A14136 to EPIC-Norfolk and C8221/A19170 to EPICOxford), Medical Research Council (MR/N003284/1 and MC-UU_12015/1 to EPIC-Norfolk and MR/M012190/1 to EPIC-Oxford) (United Kingdom). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.