“What about all these six-year-olds with leukaemia? What’s that from? All their negative thinking?” - Johnny Sack, "The Sopranos"
Regards,
One answer to your question on the cause of childhood leukemia would be:
A change in the DNA of normal bone marrow cells.
That change is usually described as “Chromosome Translocation”. This and similar DNA mutations can be inheirited.
Regards,