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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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