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Cancer in children and young people

Cancer in children and young people is rare, and the subtypes that occur tend to have different causes, treatments, and outcomes to adult cancers.

ECSGs main projects all contribute to discovering the causes and monitoring the diagnosis, treatment and after effects of childhood cancers.   

Our main projects

The Haematological Malignancy Research Network

Blood cancers account for more than 50% of cancers diagnosed before 25 years of age. HMRN provides valuable, contemporary, robust, generalizable data on these cancers.

VIVO Biobank

VIVO Biobank is a national UK resource that is dedicated to storing samples and data of cancers affecting children and young people. Vivo is a collaboration between Cancer Research UK and Blood Cancer UK.

The United Kingdom Childhood Cancer Study

UKCCS is a national study designed to examine potential causes of cancers diagnosed before the age of 15 years, and also explore the longer-term health of childhood cancer survivors.

Management of childhood cancer in low income countries

We established a long-standing and highly successful treatment programme in Uganda, for the childhood cancer, retinoblastoma, that has become a model for the management of certain childhood cancers in low income settings.