XN000022-1980-08-28 — Page 5

THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1980

A SHA TIN DISTRICT OFFICE SPOKESMAN SAID THE CULTURAL COMPLEX AND LIBRARY WOULD BE PART OF THE TOWN CENTRE DEVELOPMENT.

THE AREA ON BOTH SIDES OF THE COMPLEX WOULD BE MAINLY FOR RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROVIDING HOMES FOR ABOUT 50 000 PEOPLE.

A COMMERCIAL COMPLEX, THREE MEDIUM-RISE COMMERCIAL OFFICE BLOCKS AND A MAGISTRACY WOULD ALSO BE BUILT IN THE TOWN CENTRE.

THE CHIEF ARCHITECT OF SHA TIN NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT OFFICE, MR FRANK HO-ASJOE. TODAY BRIEFED LOCAL DISTRICT ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS ON PLANS FOR THE CULTURAL COMPLEX AND LIBRARY FOR THEIR COMMENTS, PLANS WILL BE FINALISED WHEN ALL VIEWS HAVE BEEN COLLECTED.

AT THE SAME MEETING, MEMBERS WERE ALSO CONSULTED ON UPDATING THE SHA TIN NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME.

ANTI-CANCER EXHIBITION OPENS AT CITY HALL

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MANY FORMS OF CANCER ARE EITHER PREVENTABLE OR CURABLE IF DETECTED EARLY AND TREATED IN TIME.

THIS WAS THE MESSAGE GIVEN BY THE DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES, DR K.L. THONG, WHEN HE OFFICIALLY OPENED THE ANTI-CANCER EXHIBITION IN THE CITY HALL EXHIBITION HALL THIS AFTERNOON.

THE EXHIBITION, AIMED AT PROVIDING THE PUBLIC WITH BASIC

IS KNOWLEDGE OF CANCER, THE TOP KILLER-DISEASE IN HONG KONG, JOINTLY HELD BY THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT, THE ANTI- CANCER SOCIETY AND THE STOMA ASSOCIATION OF HONG KONG.

SPEAKING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY, DR THONG SAID THE CANCER MORTALITY RATE DOUBLED IN THE PAST TWO DECADES FROM 62.5 PER 100 000 IN 1959 TO 126,6 LAST YEAR.

HE STRESSED HOWEVER THAT THOUGH CANCER ACCOUNTED FOR ABOUT 25 PER CENT OF ALL DEATHS IN HONG KONG, IT WAS NOT A TOTALLY INCURABLE DISEASE.

+WHILE CANCER IS FATAL IF UNTREATED, OR IF TREATED LATE, CERTAIN FORMS OF CANCER, IF DETECTED AND TREATED EARLY ARE AMONG THE MOST CURABLE OF THE DISEASES WHICH HAVE BECOME THE MAJOR CAUSES OF DEATH, HE SAID.

HE SAID ALTHOUGH THE CAUSE AND TREATMENT OF MANY VARIETIES CF CANCER ARE STILL THE SUBJECT OF RESEARCH, MANY CANCERS ARE INDUCED BY EXPOSURE TO KNOWN CARCINOGENIC AGENTS AND THE RISK CAN BE REDUCED BY THE ELIMINATION OR CONTROL OF THESE SUBSTANCES.

/FOR INSTANCE,