Hong Kong’s first cancer centre to provide advanced treatments for city’s biggest killer
Professor says new facility in 2025 will close the gap in waiting time for latest therapies and drugs, and provide emotional support to sufferers and caregivers
Cancer patients in Hong Kong will receive more advanced and timely treatments once the city’s first cancer centre begins operations in eight years, the head of the billion-dollar project has said.
“In future, patients can benefit from laboratory discoveries directly,” Professor Gabriel Leung, dean of the medicine faculty at the University of Hong Kong, said.
The project, made possible with a HK$1.24 billion donation from the Hong Kong Jockey Club, will redevelop the public Grantham Hospital into the city’s first comprehensive cancer centre.
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Facilities comprise a top-notch therapy base, clinical research hub as well as a facility providing psychological support for sufferers and their caregivers.
It will close the existing gap where cancer patients have to wait years before they receive innovative therapy identified in laboratories.
“Once a researcher achieves a medical breakthrough, or when a new therapy from an international conference is learned, it can be applied on local patients,” Leung said.
Cancer is the number one killer disease in Hong Kong, claiming about 13,800 lives a year.
