1. Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Karolinska Institute Stockholm Sweden
2. Exponent, Inc., Center for Health Sciences Menlo Park California United States
3. Department of Cancer Prevention Center Sun Yat‐sen University Cancer Center Guangzhou China
4. State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, and Guangdong Key Laboratory of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Diagnosis and Therapy Sun Yat‐Sen University Cancer Center Guangzhou China
5. Department of Clinical Laboratory Wuzhou Red Cross Hospital Wuzhou China
6. Wuzhou Health System Key Laboratory for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Etiology and Molecular Mechanism Wuzhou China
7. Department of Otolaryngology‐Head and Neck Surgery First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University Nanning China
8. Key Laboratory of High‐Incidence Tumor Prevention & Treatment (Guangxi Medical University), Ministry of Education Nanning China
9. State Key Laboratory for Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention Beijing China
10. Sihui Cancer Institute Sihui China
11. Cangwu Institute for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Control and Prevention Wuzhou China
12. Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology Karolinska Institute Stockholm Sweden
13. Department of Occupational and Environmental Health School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan China
14. Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics and Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer Fujian Medical University Fuzhou China
15. Beijing Hospital Beijing China
16. Clinical Effectiveness Research Group, Institute of Health and Society University of Oslo Oslo Norway