Research Institute
Written by: Lin Oli
2021-02-04 08:00
Last update date: 2021-02-04 08:00
Tomorrow (4th) is "World Cancer Day." According to data from the Hospital Authority, there were 34,028 people suffering from cancer in Hong Kong in 2018. Among them, colorectal cancer has the largest number, reaching 5634, that is, one in every six cancer patients has colorectal cancer; Followed by lung cancer, there were 5252 patients in 2018, accounting for 15.4% of the total cancer patients.
The most people in Hong Kong suffer from colorectal cancer, but the number of deaths is the most from lung cancer. In 2018, 3853 people died of lung cancer, of which 2,525 were men, accounting for 65%.
From 2009 to 2018, the crude lung cancer death rate per 100,000 men has been higher than that of women, and it was 41.1 more than women in 2018.
Calculated by age group, the most common cancer among men aged 0-19 is leukemia, with 30 people suffering from it in 2018; most people aged 20-44 suffer from nasopharyngeal cancer, with 115 people; group 45 or older The first two are lung cancer and colorectal cancer.
In terms of death toll, 1883 men aged 65 or over died of lung cancer in 2018, which is equivalent to 318.9 deaths from cancer per 100,000 people. The older the age, the higher the proportion of cancer deaths.
As for women, leukemia is the most common among women aged 0-19. Women aged 20-74 are most susceptible to breast cancer. Among them, women aged 45-64 are the most common with 2,554.
In 2018, women between the ages of 20 and 64 died of breast cancer the most. Women between the ages of 45 and 64 accounted for the most, with 380 deaths, equivalent to 29.7 deaths due to breast cancer per 100,000 people.
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