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Radiation in Drinking Water and Cancer Risk

CLIC researchers Drs. Anssi Auvinen and Wafa Alimam, Tampere University-Finland, recently published a systematic review of studies on radioactive particles found in drinking water and cancer risk. Occasionally, naturally occurring…

PheWAS of Polygenic Scores for Childhood Cancers

You may have heard of genomewide association studies (GWAS), which discover genetic variants associated with disease. Phenome-wide association studies (PheWAS) flip the analysis and discover diseases or traits (i.e. phenotypes)…

CLICsgiving 2024 Wrap-up

We’d like to thank everyone who supported CLICsgiving 2024 and our goal of expanding childhood cancer research. We are grateful to all who provided monetary donations, spread our messages, and…

September Is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

Around the world, September is recognized as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Many organizations focused on cancer adopt a gold ribbon to symbolize childhood and adolescent cancers as “Gold is a…

Genetic Risk of ALL in Japanese Children

Cancer registry data makes clear that children of different ancestries can have different risks of ALL.  How much of this risk is due to genetics versus environment? CLIC researchers from…

Missing Teeth and Cancer Risk

Recently, CLIC partners, Drs. Jeremy Schraw and Philip Lupo, studied the relationship between missing teeth from birth (congenital tooth agenesis) and risk of cancer diagnosis before 40 years old (early-onset…