Conclusions
This study confirms the well-established increased risk of breast cancer associated with alcohol consumption and suggests that higher intake of dietary fibre and possibly fruit might be associated with reduced breast cancer risk.
Abbreviations
BMI: Body Mass Index; CI: Confidence interval; EPIC: European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition; ER: Oestrogen receptor; FDR: False discovery rate; GWAS: Genome-wide association study; HR: Hazard ratio; NLCS: Netherlands Cohort Study; NWAS: Nutrient-wide association study; PR: Progesterone receptor; RR: Relative risk; SD: Standard deviation; WCRF/AICR: World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research
Acknowledgements
The authors thank all participants in the EPIC cohort for their invaluable contribution to the study.
Disclaimer
Where authors are identified as personnel of the International Agency for Research on Cancer/World Health Organization, the authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this article and they do not necessarily represent the decisions, policy, or views of the International Agency for Research on Cancer/World Health Organization.
Funding
This work was supported by the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF UK), as part of the World Cancer Research Fund International grant programme (WCRF 2014/1180 to Konstantinos K Tsilidis).
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); German Cancer Aid, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Deutsche Krebshilfe, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum and Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany); the 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 (ISCIII), Regional Governments of Andalucía, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia, Navarra, and the Catalan Institute of Oncology (Barcelona) (Spain); Swedish Cancer Society, Swedish Research Council and County Councils of Skåne and Västerbotten (Sweden); Cancer Research UK (14136 to EPIC-Norfolk; C570/A16491 and C8221/A19170 to EPIC-Oxford), Medical Research Council (1000143 to EPIC-Norfolk, MR/M012190/1 to EPIC-Oxford) (UK).
The funding bodies had no role in the design of the study and collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript.
Availability of data and materials
For information on how to submit an application for gaining access to EPIC data and/or biospecimens, please follow the instructions at http://epic.iarc.fr/access/index.php
Ethics approval and consent to participate
The EPIC study was approved by the ethics committees of the International Agency for Research on Cancer and the individual study centres. The Netherlands Cohort Study was approved by the institutional review boards of the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek (TNO) Quality of Life research institute (Zeist, Netherlands) and Maastricht University (Maastricht, Netherlands). Informed consent was provided by all participants.
Consent for publication
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