SATURDAY, JULY 14,
JULY 14, 1990
OVER 8,500 CANCER DEATHS LAST YEAR
LAST MORE THAN 8,500 PEOPLE DIED OF CANCER IN HONG KONG
CENT OF REPRESENTING 30 PER
TOTAL DEATHS IN THE TERRITORY, DIRECTOR OF HEALTH, DR S.H. LEE, SAID TODAY (SATURDAY).
YEAR, THE
EXHIBITION ON CANCER SPEAKING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE
CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF ORGANISED BY THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE
HONG OF NEW KONG, DR LEE SAID ACCORDING TO THE CANCER REGISTRY THE NUMBER CANCER CASES NOTIFIED IN 1988 WAS 14,500.
"
IS
THE
RELATED TO OUR "MANY OF THE CANCER CASES ARE IN FACT CLOSELY
OF HE SAID. "ONE
THE LIFE-STYLES,
MOST NOTABLE EXAMPLES RELATION OF CIGARETTE SMOKING AND LUNG CANCER."
DR LEE POINTED OUT THAT LUNG CANCER ACCOUNTED FOR 2,592 OR 30 PER CENT OF TOTAL CANCER DEATHS LAST YEAR, AND THAT 90 PER AND WERE OF THE LUNG CANCER CASES WERE ATTRIBUTABLE TO SMOKING PREVENTABLE.
DEATHS CENT
THUS
WHILE "CANCER" MIGHT BE A VERY FRIGHTENING WORD, THE CURE
WAS VERY
IF OF SOME
THE CANCERS OF
PROMISING
THE DISEASE WAS DIAGNOSED AND TREATED AT AN EARLY STAGE, HE SAID.
RATE
HE SAID PUBLIC EDUCATION ON THE PREVENTION AND EARLY OF CANCER WAS THEREFORE CONSIDERED EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.
DETECTION
DETERMINED TO CANCER PREVENTION
PROMOTE AND HAS PROGRAMMES," DR
"THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IS ALWAYS BEEN ACTIVE IN ORGANISING LEE STRESSED.
CERVICAL
SMEAR
**ITS FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE PROVIDES FREE EXAMINATIONS FOR THE EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER OF THE CERVIX FOR WOMEN ABOVE THE AGE OF 30.
THROUGH THE FAMILY
"BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION IS ALSO PROMOTED HEALTH SERVICE AND THE CENTRAL. HEALTH EDUCATION UNIT.'
IMMUNISATION OF ALL
IT
DR LEE SAID THE
NEWBORNS IN HONG KONG AGAINST VIRAL HEPATITIS B INFECTION WAS STARTED IN NOVEMBER 1988.
ΤΟ PREVENT CANCER OF THIS WAS ANOTHER PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURE THE LIVER, THE SECOND MOST COMMON CANCER DEATH IN HONG KONG.
SUCH
ON
SAID THE DEPARTMENT IN THE PROMOTION OF CANCER EDUCATION, HE
OTHER
AS THE WORKED CLOSELY
COUNCIL SMOKING AND HEALTH AND THE HONG KONG ANTI-CANCER SOCIETY.
WITH
ORGANISATIONS
CHINESE UNIVERSITY SAID WAS AN HEALTH
DR LEE PRAISED THE MEDICAL STUDENTS OF THE FOR THEIR EFFORTS IN ORGANISING THE EXHIBITION WHICH HE EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN THE PROMOTION OF IN SOCIETY.
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