IARC marks Childhood Cancer Awareness Month 2024: new project focused on Africa

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is marking Childhood Cancer Awareness Month 2024 by offering insights into its activities and research to help understand, control, and prevent childhood cancer.

Researchers from IARC and partner institutions recently started a new project to examine several complementary aspects of childhood cancer research: the Childhood Cancer – Epidemiology, Research, and Omics (CICERO) project.

One part of the project will focus on childhood cancer in Africa, in particular studying the full journey of children with cancer, including understanding early signs and referral patterns, survival, and treatment completion. This will be complemented by defining molecular profiles of childhood cancer cases in Africa using epigenomics methodology.

Another part of the CICERO project will address the development and dissemination of indicators of the burden of childhood cancer, such as incidence, survival, prevalence, mortality, and financial impact.

The CICERO project is supported by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport of the Government of the Netherlands.

Visit the IARC Childhood Cancer Awareness Month 2024 webpage