Adult weight change and premenopausal breast cancer risk: A prospective pooled analysis of data from 628,463 women

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Funding Acknowledgements

We thank the National Cancer Institute Cohort Consortium for facilitating this collaboration. We thank Melissa House MS (WestStat Inc, MD); Mustapha Abubakar MBBS PhD (National Cancer Institute, MD); Niclas Hakansson PhD (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden); Jane Sullivan-Halley BS (Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA); Allison Iwan BS, Diane Kampa BS (University of Minnesota, MN); Jerry Reid PHD (American Registry of Radiologic Technologists, MN); Jeffrey Yu MPH (Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston, MA) for contributions to acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data. They received no compensation for their contributions other than their salaries. We wish to acknowledge all study participants, staff, and participating cancer registries. The Nurses' Health Study (NHS) and Nurses' Health Study 2 (NHS2) would like to thank the following state cancer registries for their help: AL, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, IA, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, NE, NH, NJ, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, WA, WY. The study protocol was approved by the institutional review boards of the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and those of participating registries as required. Support for this research comes, in part, from Breast Cancer Now; The Institute of Cancer Research, London; the Avon Foundation (02-2014-080); the United States National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (KL2-TR001109); Karolinska Institutet Distinguished Professor Award Dnr: 2368/10-221; the United States National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (Z01 ES044005, P30 ES000260, P30 CA016087), National Cancer Institute (UM1 CA176726, UM1 CA186107, UM1 CA182876, UM1 CA182934, UM1 CA164974, R01 CA058420, R01 CA092447, CA144034), the National Program of Cancer Registries of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Energy; The Dahod Breast Cancer Research Program at Boston University School of Medicine; the State of Maryland, the Maryland Cigarette Restitution Fund; VicHealth, Cancer Council Victoria and the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (209057, 396414 and 1074383); the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF-17-138); the Swedish Research Council and Swedish Cancer Foundation; the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare; the Hellenic Health Foundation. The California Teachers Study is supported by R01 CA77398 and U01 CA199277. The coordination of the European Prospective Investigation in Cancer is financially supported by the European Commission (DG-SANCO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The national cohorts are supported by 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); Swedish Cancer Society, Swedish Research Council and County Councils of Skane and Vasterbotten (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; United Kingdom). The Institute of Cancer Research, London, acknowledges National Health Service funding to the Royal Marsden/ICR NIHR Biomedical Research Centre.