Programme
Tuesday 29th April 2008
09.00 REGISTRATION
09.45 Eric Wright Introduction and Welcome chair of conference scientific committee
Chair Denis Henshaw
10.00 Mel Greaves - Biology of childhood leukaemia: implications for aetiology Institute of Cancer Research, London
10.45 REFRESHMENTS
11.15 Mike Murphy - Incidence, mortality and survival of childhood leukaemia: time trends and geographic variation CCRG, Oxford
12.00 Louise Parker - Problems with epidemiology Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
12.45 LUNCH
Chair Mel Greaves
13.45 Tim Eden - Major hypotheses for childhood leukaemia aetiology tested in the UKCCS Paediatric and Adolescent Oncology Unit University of Manchester
14.30 Pat Buffler - The Northern California Childhood Leukemia study: update University of California, Berkeley
15.15 REFRESHMENTS
15.45 Malcolm Taylor - HLA in Childhood Leukaemia: a role in causation, outcome and prevention? St Mary's Hospital, Manchester
16.30 Anne Cooke - Infection and immunity: the hygiene hypothesis University of Cambridge
17.15 DRINKS RECEPTION & POSTER VIEWING including exhibition of Susan Macfarlane's series of paintings entitled 'Living with leukaemia'
Dinner at The Foundling Museum
Wednesday 30th April 2008
Chair Eric Wright
09.30 Julie Ross - Infant Leukaemia University of Minnesota
10.15 Liz Milne - Diet, intrauterine growth and childhood leukaemia risk Telethon Institute for Child Health, Research, Western Australia
11.00 REFRESHMENTS
11.30 Richard Houlston - Global genome screening for cancer susceptibility Institute of Cancer Research, London
12.15 Denis Henshaw - Environmental factors University of Bristol.
13.00 LUNCH
Chair Louise Parker
14.00 Joachim Schüz - Epidemiologic studies of extremely low-frequency magnetic fields and childhood leukaemia: an overview Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Copenhagen
14.45 Rob Mairs - EMF biological mechanisms Beatson Laboratories, University of Glasgow
15.30 REFRESHMENTS
16.00 Eric Wright - Ionizing radiation mechanisms University of Dundee
17.00 Mel Greaves - Closing remarks
17.30 CLOSE
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