Viruses That Cause Cancer
In June 2025, two of our CLIC partners, Drs. Michael Scheurer and Joseph Wiemels joined a team of scientists at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) to discuss…
Squeezing the Juice Out of Childhood Cancer Genomic Datasets
Building genomic datasets (i.e. genomewide association studies, GWAS) for childhood cancer is a lot of work. Childhood cancer is thankfully rare, so often GWAS datasets must be cobbled together with…
Environmental Risk Factors of Wilms Tumour
Wilms Tumor (WT), a solid tumor in the kidney, is the fourth most common cancer in children. Pediatric cancer researchers agree that WT is commonly found in young children before…
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)…
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…
Genes Affecting Folate Intake and Childhood ALL Risk
Folate is an important micronutrient for a mother and baby’s health during pregnancy. CLIC studies show that the risk of childhood leukemia is reduced for children if their mothers took…
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…
Hypertension and Antihypertensive Medication During Pregnancy
Hypertension during pregnancy and preeclampsia can be harmful to both the mother and the unborn child. The impact of using antihypertensive medication to control these conditions during pregnancy on childhood…
Magnetic Fields and Risk of Childhood Cancer
Concerns about electromagnetic fields (EMF) causing childhood leukemia have been investigated since the 1980’s. Two of our CLIC partners from Italy recently published articles examining the effects of exposure to…