In what appears to be a shift of the government’s position on breast cancer screening, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has revealed that officials will explore whether a population-wide mammography programme is needed to fight the city’s most common cancer in women.
Lam, Hong Kong’s first woman chief executive, said the government was collecting data to assess the need.
Breast cancer claimed the lives of 702 Hong Kong women in 2016, up from 637 in 2015.
The chief...
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