Hepatitis B is a viral infection causing inflammation of the liver, whereas chronic hepatitis B infection can lead to serious outcomes including cirrhosis, liver cancer and liver failure. While universal infant vaccination against hepatitis B virus ...
The Hong Kong Cancer Registry reported that a total of 34,028 new cancer cases were diagnosed in Hong Kong in 2018, whereas 16,988 of them were diagnosed in women. The number of new cases in women have increased by 4.9% as compared to 2017. Particul...
The burden of kidney diseases is substantial that the disease affects about 10% of global population and its prevalence continues to increase. Essentially, kidney diseases are associated with various comorbidities including cardiovascular diseases (...
Therapeutic Sequencing Strategy in Multiple Myeloma Date: 24 th June 2021 (Thursday) Time: 19:00 - 20:40 (GMT+8, HKT) Meeting format: Zoom meeting Address: Salon Room III, Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, 18 Hanoi Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon The survival o...
Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) describes a heterogeneous spectrum of persistent inflammatory diseases affecting the paranasal sinuses. In particular, CRS with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) represents the subtype of CRS considered to have a clinically more sev...
Breast cancer ranks the first place among female cancers in Hong Kong, with the incidence increased nearly 4 times within the past 25 years. Although a wide spectrum of therapies for breast cancer is currently available, the prognosis of the disease...
Over the past 25 years, significant progress has been made in the treatment of multiple myeloma (MM) as reflected by the improved overall survival (OS). However, in relapsed and refractory MM (RRMM), median OS decreases with each extra line of thera...
The 35 th Anniversary of Hong Kong Peritoneal Dialysis First Policy The health burden of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is substantial and has been increasing gradually in Hong Kong, whereas dialysis is the lifeline for the majority of patients with...
Constipation: A Neglected Condition? Constipation is a common gastrointestinal disorder which adversely impacts the quality of life of patients and creates significant economic burden for the society such as increasing absenteeism from work and/or s...
The 9 th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Hong Kong Society of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery Liver cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related death globally. The prognosis of liver cancers is usually poor, and predicting life expec...
The Live Symposium on Breast Health Education 2021 Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women both globally and locally, whereas the number of locally diagnosed female breast cancer cases has increased by 4 times from 1993 to 2018. This ind...
The Uro-Oncology Asia 2021 Significant advances in urological cancer treatments have been emerging in recent years. For instance, immunotherapy continues to play an increasingly important role and innovations in biomarkers help select patients for s...
