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…
2025 CLIC Scientific Meeting and Conference in Taipei, Taiwan
The 2025 CLIC Scientific Meeting and Conference was held on March 17-19, 2025 at the Chang Yung-Fa International Convention Center in Taipei, Taiwan. CLIC members from 14 countries traveled to…
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)…
Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Cancer Diagnoses and Oncological Care in Germany
It has been five years since COVID-19 first appeared and countries around the world instated wide-ranging societal restrictions, stay-at home policies, and other public health measures. As global health researchers,…
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…
CLICsgiving 2024!
CLIC is beginning our second annual fundraiser: CLICsgiving 2024. We hope to garner support from donors around the world and build a community of followers who are passionate about our…
Highlighting Dr. Erin Marcotte’s New Research Initiative
Many CLIC partners are also members of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), and this month, SIOP holds its large Annual Conference in Hawaii. CLIC’s Dr. Erin Marcotte, University…
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…