Childhood Cancer Awareness Month 2025
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The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is marking Childhood Cancer Awareness Month 2025. IARC works with partners around the world to understand, measure, and prevent childhood cancer.Read the news item
In collaboration with the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), scientists have uncovered how certain environmental and lifestyle factors that occur during pregnancy or early life may leave chemical tags on a child’s DNA, potentially shaping the risk of developing acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), the most common cancer type in children. The study is published in the International Journal of Cancer.
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Related Links
- Read more about the IARC Childhood Cancer Awareness and Research Evidence Team (CCARE)
- Read more about IARC’s work on childhood cancer