FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1980
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CANCER EXHIBITION OPENED IN TSUEN WAN
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MANY FORMS OF CANCER ARE PREVENTABLE WHILE MANY OTHERS, IF DETECTED EARLY AND TREATED IN TIME, ARE CURABLE.
THIS WAS THE MESSAGE GIVEN BY THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES, DR C.Y. SAM, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE ANTI-CANCER EXHIBITION AT TSUEN WAN TOWN HALL THIS AFTERNOON.
THE EXHIBITION, MOUNTED BY THE CENTRAL HEALTH EDUCATION UNIT OF THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT, THE ANTI-CANCER SOCIETY AND THE STOMA ASSOCIATION OF HONG KONG, IS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE RESIDENTS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES WITH BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT CANCER.
A SIMILAR EXHIBITION HELD AT THE CITY HALL LAST AUGUST ATTRACTED SOME 70 000 VISITORS.
DR SAM POINTED OUT THAT THE CANCER MORTALITY RATE HAS DOUBLED IN THE LAST TWO DECADES FROM 62.5 PER 100 000 IN 1959 TO 126.6 LAST YEAR.
HE STRESSED THAT THOUGH CANCER CLAIMED MOST LIVES IN RECENT YEARS, IT IS NOT A TOTALLY INCURABLE DISEASE.
+WHILE CANCER IS FATAL IF UNTREATED OR IF TREATED LATE, SOME FORMS OF CANCER, IF DETECTED AND TREATED EARLY CAN BE CURED, + HE SAID.
ABSTAINING FROM SMOKING, FOR INSTANCE, IS ONE OF THE PREVENTIVE MEASURES AGAINST LUNG CANCER, HE SAID.
DR SAM EMPHASISED THAT PUBLIC EDUCATION WAS ESSENTIAL IN REDUCING INCIDENCES OF MORTALITY AND DISABILITY, AND IN MINIMISING PSYCHOLOGICAL AS WELL AS PHYSICAL SUFFERINGS ARISING FROM CANCER.
ALSO SPEAK ING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY WAS MR LUI HAQ-TUEN, TSUEN WAN DISTRICT OFFICER.
HE SAID THE EXHIBITION HELD AT TSUEN WAN WAS A WELCOME MOVE
FOR THE 700 000 PEOPLE IN THE DISTRICT,
MR LUI SAID THE GOVERNMENT WAS ALWAYS MINDFUL OF HEALTH SERVICES TO RESIDENTS AND HAD DONE MUCH TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE PREVENTION OF DISEASES.
HE CALLED ON NT RESIDENTS TO VISIT THE EXHIBITION AND TO LEARN HOW TO PREVENT HONG KONG'S TOP KILLER DISEASE.
THE EXHIBITION IS OPEN FROM TODAY TO MONDAY BETWEEN 10 AM AND 5 PM.
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