Cancer cases among children up sharply in Hong Kong
04-Jan-16, EJ Insight
Hong Kong has seen a sharp rise in cancer cases involving children and adolescents, according to data from the Hospital Authority (HA).
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In 2013, there were 234 cancer cases in the city related to people below the age of 19, an increase of 20 percent compared to the previous year.
There were 28,936 new cancer cases in 2013 in Hong Kong. Of those, 234 — or 0.8 percent — involved persons aged below 19, up from 195 cases in the previous year.
As for the number of new cases in the age groups of zero to four and ten to 14, the increases year-on-year were 50 percent and 55 percent, respectively.