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Survey highlights Hong Kong women’s ignorance of ‘silent killer’

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A quarter of Hong Kong women do not know what their ovaries are for, a survey found, highlighting the ignorance surrounding ovarian cancer. Dubbed the silent killer, it is the city’s sixth most common cancer among females, claiming 208 lives in 2015. Doctors called for better public education to raise awareness about the risks of the disease and earlier screening and treatment. Pollsters from the University of Hong Kong talked over the phone to a random sample of 508 women between...

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