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Cancer cases will rise by 10 per cent in seven years and more than 13,000 cancer patients will die each year in Hong Kong. A document to be discussed at the government's medical services development committee says the number of new cancer cases will reach 22,286 by 2006, compared with 20,231 this year. Cancer has been the number one killer since 1991, accounting for one-third of all deaths in the Southeast Asia.
The Hong Kong Cancer Registry projects that by the year 2006, the total number of cancer deaths will reach 13,724. The seven leading cancers in Hong Kong are lung, liver, colon, breast, nasopharynx, stomach and rectum. Liver cancer is the most dangerous
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