Introducing the CLIC Genomics Project
Over the last 16 years since its founding, CLIC has brought together researchers from around the world to pool data from case-control studies of childhood leukemia and, since 2019, childhood…
Childhood Retinoblastoma Risk May Be Related to Fathers’ Job Exposures
CLIC investigators Drs. Julia Heck and Johnni Hansen, along with other cancer researchers, recently reported results from a study on parents’ occupations and the risk of retinoblastoma among their children….
Thyroid Cancer Screening Is Not Recommended for Children and Adolescents Without Symptoms
An international research team, including CLIC investigator Dr. Joachim Schüz, recently published an article about the global trends of thyroid cancer incidence (new cases) and mortality (deaths) among children aged…
More Data is Better – Introducing the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative
The Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (CCDI) is a 10-year, $500 million effort by the National Cancer Institute. CCDI will attempt to gather and link all available clinical, genomic, and epidemiologic…
COVID-19 Can’t Stop CLIC Members from Collaborating (Safely)!
The 2020 CLIC Annual Scientific Meeting originally scheduled for Seattle has gone virtual because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The virtual annual meeting will be held November 3rd – 5th, from…