According to the latest data, breast cancer has overtaken colorectal cancer as the second most common form of the disease in Hong Kong for the first time among new patients - This news was first published by SCMP.
Statistics for 2022 released on Tuesday showed 5,208 new breast cancer cases were recorded, including both women and men, narrowly surpassing colorectal cancer at 5,190.
Lung cancer remained the most prevalent type with 5,707 cases, Hong Kong Cancer Registry data showed.
Among men, lung cancer led to 3,340 new cases. It was followed by colorectal cancer with 2,928 cases and prostate cancer with 2,758.
Liver cancer and stomach cancer rounded out the top five among men with 1,173 and 720 cases respectively.
For women, breast cancer remained the most common type with 5,182 new cases recorded, followed by lung cancer with 2,367 and colorectal cancer with 2,262. Corpus uteri cancer and thyroid cancer completed the top five with 1,188 and 820 cases respectively.
Hong Kong recorded 35,373 new cancer cases in 2022, averaging 97 diagnoses a day. While the figure marked an 8 per cent decrease from 2021, officials attributed the drop to disrupted cancer screening during that year’s fifth wave of COVID-19 cases.
Looking at longer-term trends, cancer rates for men have stabilised over the past decade, but show an upward trend for women.
“With the ageing and growing population, the number of cancer cases is expected to rise substantially in the near future,” the registry said.
The overall five-year survival rate has improved, rising from 42 per cent in the early 2000s to nearly 55 per cent in recent years.
About one in 30 residents was either living with cancer or had survived it in the past 20 years.
Cancer remained Hong Kong’s leading cause of death, claiming 14,717 lives in 2022 – an average of 40 people daily. Men accounted for 57 per cent of cancer deaths.
Among children and adolescents under 20, cancer remains rare, representing just 0.5 per cent of all cases. In 2022, 141 new cases were recorded in this age group.
Leukaemia was the most common type, with 47 cases, followed by germ cell and gonadal cancers, with 21. Seventeen cases of brain and spinal tumours, along with lymphomas, were recorded.
報告指出乳癌已成為香港第二大常見疾病
根據最新數據，乳癌在新患者中首次超越大腸癌，成為香港第二大常見疾病 - 此消息由《南華早報》首次發表。
週二公佈的 2022 年統計數據顯示，新增乳癌病例 5,208 例，其中包括女性和男性，略高於大腸癌的 5,190 例。
香港癌症登記處的數據顯示，肺癌仍然是最常見的癌症類型，共有 5,707 例。
在男性中，肺癌導致 3,340 例新病例。 其次是大腸直腸癌（2,928 例）和攝護腺癌（2,758 例）。
肝癌和胃癌在男性中位列前五，分別有 1,173 例和 720 例。
對於女性來說，乳癌仍然是最常見的癌症類型，有 5,182 例新病例，其次是肺癌（2,367 例）和大腸癌（2,262 例）。 子宮體癌和甲狀腺癌位列前五，分別為 1,188 例和 820 例。
2022年，香港新增癌症病例35,373例，平均每天確診97例。 儘管這一數字較 2021 年下降了 8%，但官員將這一下降歸因於當年第五波 COVID-19 病例期間癌症篩檢的中斷。
從長期趨勢來看，過去十年男性癌症發生率趨於穩定，但女性癌症發生率呈上升趨勢。
該登記處表示：“隨著人口老化和人口增長，癌症病例數量預計在不久的將來將大幅增加。”
整體五年存活率提高，從2000年代初期的42%上升到近年來的近55%。
大約三分之一的居民要么患有癌症，要么在過去 20 年裡倖存下來。
癌症仍然是香港的首要死因，到 2022 年，癌症奪走了 14,717 人的生命，平均每天奪走 40 人的生命。 男性佔癌症死亡人數的 57%。
在 20 歲以下的兒童和青少年中，癌症仍然很少見，僅佔所有病例的 0.5%。 2022 年，該年齡組新增病例 141 例。
白血病是最常見的類型，有 47 例，其次是生殖細胞癌和性腺癌，有 21 例。
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