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Cancer causes one in every eight deaths around the world, the World Health Organisation says. Lifestyle changes can do a lot to prevent the disease. Learn more about cancer, its symptoms, and modern–day approaches to beating it, from experts and survivors.
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US Navy to extend Pacific reach with long-range anti-ship F-16 missiles: report

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Gender & Diversity

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Southeast Asia

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Chinese scientists turn tumours to ‘pork’ in radical cancer treatment

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Biomedicine: Companies

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Hong Kong society

Editorial | More must be done in Hong Kong’s battle against obesity

Children in Hong Kong are among those falling victim to one of today’s greatest health challenges, which calls for a concerted effort by all.

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3D bioprinter that makes humanlike tissue should improve drug testing

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Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

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Chinese University of Hong Kong researchers find patients with cancer-associated EBV DNA in blood have 87-fold increased risk of developing illness.

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Hong Kong

She tried several careers but found her niche in genetic sequencing

PostMag talks to 5 women innovators at the top of their game and pushing the boundaries of scientific discovery – here we meet Angela Wu, a professor at HKUST’s division of life science and department of chemical and biological engineering.

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You can help avoid microplastics getting into your body. Experts share tips

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Medicine

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Fame and celebrity

Meet Nicolle Wallace, who just slammed Trump’s ‘honouring’ of a 13-year-old

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Wellness

How self-checks can save you from skin, breast and testicular cancer

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Wellness

‘The lower the semen quality, the lower the life expectancy’: study

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Fame and celebrity

Who is Fox News star Kat Timpf’s investment banker husband, Cameron Friscia?

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Wellness

A pint of hard liquor a night and the weight piled on. How did he quit?

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Hong Kong science and tech

‘Quick, nice, great’: 5 cancer patients test Hong Kong-made ‘living drug’

Chinese University team reports encouraging results and is recruiting more patients to include in CAR-T clinical trial.

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Wellness

Need a reason to eat fibre? It ‘has anticancer effects’, study finds

A Stanford University study shows how fibre goes to work in the gut to reduce cancer risk; grains, fruit, vegetables are all high in fibre.

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Wellness

Breast milk protein stops cancer with no side effects

Common protein found in human breast milk has been seen to quickly kill bladder tumour cells.

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Wellness

Why has life expectancy stopped rising? Blame modern lifestyles

Medical breakthroughs which for more than two decades lengthened human lifespans have been offset by physical inactivity and unhealthy diets.

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Your life is largely in your hands, not your genes, study shows

It’s easy to blame ill-health on genes, but how we live from childhood onwards is shown to be a bigger reason for disease and early death.

Science

Chinese discovery could help people survive nuclear fallout

Finding that mice are more likely to survive radiation if a protein is knocked out could also aid cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy.

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Wellness

‘I poisoned my children,’ says woman in court over PFAS ‘forever chemicals’

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Fame and celebrity

Meet Anna Romano, wife of Everybody Loves Raymond star Ray Romano

TV comedian heavyweight Ray Romano’s has a new Netflix series – so who is his wife Anna Romano, who’s been by his side since 1987 and was the inspiration for a character in his directorial debut?

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Icons and Influencers

Who is Belle Gibson, the con artist behind Netflix’s Apple Cider Vinegar?

Gibson built a cult following after claiming she’d cured her brain cancer with alternative remedies – turned out, she’d lied about her illness, charity donations and much more.

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Fame and celebrity

Who is Grammy winner Jon Batiste’s wife, Suleika Jaouad?

Jaouad, who is also a journalist and painter, served on Barack Obama’s Presidential Cancer Panel and won an Emmy for the videos based on her acclaimed New York Times column, Life, Interrupted.

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Wellness

She got breast cancer, then married. Survivor in her 20s spreads hope

When Miyabi Kuroiwa learned she had stage 4 cancer at 26 her partner proposed and they began enjoying life. Now she counsels others online.

Japanese breast cancer survivor-turned online adviser Miyabi Kuroiwa says “cancer does not equal unhappiness”. She was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer aged 26, and promptly got married. She is determined to enjoy life. Photo: Shutterstock
Science

Air pollution threat as lung cancer cases in never-smokers on the rise: study

Lung cancer in people who have never smoked is rising, and figures show China is at particular risk of air pollution-related cancer.

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Wellness

How men with breast cancer are more likely to die than women who have it

Around 8 in 10 women with breast cancer are still alive 5 years after diagnosis, but only 7 in 10 male patients, study of German data shows.

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