INDUSTRY ESSENTIALS

Anal cancers are predominantly preceded by screening-detectable high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSILs). Despite being relatively uncommon in the general population, possessing an incidence rate of 1.7 per 100,000 person-years, anal cancers disproportionately affects specific groups of individuals, particularly people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), solid organ transplant recipients and women with a history of vulvar cancer or precancer.

The 2024 guidelines developed by the Hong Kong College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (HKCOG) respond to the pressing public health challenge of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, which affects approximately 296 million people worldwide and is responsible for around 820,000 deaths each year, primarily from cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma.

Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) are a group of disorders of the clonal hematopoietic stem cells involving the proliferation of hematopoietic lineages. Conventionally, Philadelphia chromosome (Ph)-negative MPNs comprise polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocythemia (ET) and primary myelofibro

Lung cancer (LC) is regarded as the most lethal form of cancer in Asia. In 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) ’s Global Cancer Observatory (GLOBOCAN) estimated that 60% of global LC cases and 62% of global LC-related mortality were from Asian countries.

In 2019, prostate cancer (PC) was ranked the third most frequently diagnosed cancer among men in Hong Kong. Though genetic testing has not been previously considered a routine approach of PC patient care, recent sequencing studies revealed that about 11.8% of metastatic PC (mPC) patients carried in

Gout represents a prevalent non-communicable disease in Hong Kong's population. As evidenced by a local study, the prevalence of gout witnessed a nearly two-fold increase from 1.56% in 2006 to 2.92% in 2016. This surge has been ascribed to the emergence of multiple risk factors, including an aging