https://www.scmp.com/rss/500290/feed This series profiles stories about how a cancer fund and charitable initiatives like the Women of Hope (WOH) help support financially disadvantaged medical patients from around the region. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com It was only about a year ago when never-smoker Huang Yiyan was racked with pain after being diagnosed with lung cancer. The 48-year-old Hongkonger’s family were devastated to hear the news and learn that her treatment was failing to improve her condition. “I talked about ending my life every day, saying, ‘There’s no hope for me and I don't want to live anymore’, Huang, the mother of a 12-year-old son, says. Early last year, she noticed the lymph nodes in her neck were swollen and she began... https://www.scmp.com/native/lifestyle/health-wellness/topics/new-lease-life/article/3010600/doctors-offer-hope-never?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/native/lifestyle/health-wellness/topics/new-lease-life/article/3010600/doctors-offer-hope-never?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 17 May 2019 02:56:34 +0000 [Sponsored article] As you enter the spacious Repulse Bay flat of Corina Larpin, founder and head designer of luxury jeweller, Stéfère, you are likely to see a velvet tray of bejewelled accessories on display. These edgy, highly complicated pieces have attracted an A-list clientele that includes Madonna, Pink, Lady Gaga, Fergie, Jane Fonda, Khloe Kardashian, Taylor Swift and Janet Jackson. And business is growing. Larpin is always on the road – she was set to fly to Shanghai for meetings the... https://www.scmp.com/presented/lifestyle/health-wellness/topics/new-lease-life/article/3008952/why-jeweller-stars-gives?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/lifestyle/health-wellness/topics/new-lease-life/article/3008952/why-jeweller-stars-gives?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 10 May 2019 02:00:21 +0000 Health talk is all the rage but do people really understand what it means to live a healthy lifestyle? Fad diets come and go and fitness trends all promise to make you stronger. However to Hongkonger Justine Kwok, founder of the experiential farm and animal sanctuary, Flow, in Wenbishan Country Park, in her family’s ancestral home of Zhongshan in China’s Guangdong province, true health is as much about the mind as it is the body. “I think one of the most important aspects for long-term health... https://www.scmp.com/native/lifestyle/health-wellness/topics/new-lease-life/article/3005542/my-life-dong-dong-pig?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/native/lifestyle/health-wellness/topics/new-lease-life/article/3005542/my-life-dong-dong-pig?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Apr 2019 09:45:42 +0000 Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in men, and the third most common in women, after breast cancer and colorectal cancer. A total of 4,936 new diagnoses were reported in Hong Kong in 2016 – accounting for 15.7 per cent of all new cancer cases, according to the Hong Kong Cancer Registry. Love and care prove vital to a healthy heart Advanced genetic testing and medicine has brought about targeted therapy, whereby the special genetic make-up of cancer cells can be more precisely... https://www.scmp.com/native/lifestyle/health-wellness/topics/new-lease-life/article/3001451/how-funds-new-treatment-love?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/native/lifestyle/health-wellness/topics/new-lease-life/article/3001451/how-funds-new-treatment-love?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 15 Mar 2019 06:12:36 +0000