To mark International Childhood Cancer Day (15 February), the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is highlighting some of the research that IARC scientists are conducting to understand and tackle cancer in children, as shown in these new videos.
Dr Ian A. Cree, Head of the Evidence Synthesis and Classification Branch, speaks about the first volume of the WHO Classification of Tumours series to specifically focus on the classification of paediatric tumours.
Dr Inge Huybrechts, a scientist in the Nutrition and Metabolism Branch, describes the first standardized multinational study of how nutrition and other lifestyle factors affect health outcomes in children and adolescents with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), the most common cancer type in children.
The third video explains a project of the Epigenomics and Mechanisms Branch, in collaboration with international partners, to produce molecular maps of the DNA of newborn babies, before the development of disease, to enable scientists to create a molecular snapshot of early-life factors that the baby had been exposed to during pregnancy.