Research into causes and prevention

We still know relatively little about the causes of childhood leukaemia, but the increasing incidence through the twentieth century suggests that environmental and/or lifestyle factors may be involved.

We need to understand more about the causes of childhood leukaemia so that we can identify risk factors and find explanations for the increased incidence of the disease.

If we can achieve this it may be possible to develop interventions to reduce the incidence of leukaemia.

We increased our focus on causes in 2004 when we hosted a major international conference on the causes of childhood leukaemia.

Following this we launched our first grants round for research into causes. This grants round is now repeated annually.

• View our current causes and prevention projects
• View our completed causes and prevention projects
• Read more about our 2004 International Scientific Conference
• Dowload a copy of "Does Infection Cause or Prevent Childhood Leukaemia?", published April 2008.