Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis (CRSwNP) is a predominantly type 2 inflammation-mediated disease of the nasal mucosa and paranasal sinuses. The disease is also associated with a wide spectrum of symptoms and negative impacts on health-re...
Currently, there is no treat-to-target framework to guide systemic treatment in adults with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis (AD) exists. Hence, an international Steering Committee has developed recommendations, which covers guiding principles, ...
The Hong Kong Doctors Union (“HKDU”) has been aiming at fending the welfare and rights of local medical practitioners and serving as the bridge between our community and the medical profession since establishment in the 1960s. This year,...
With the growing number of patients receiving refractive lenticule extraction, such as small incision refractive lenticule extraction (SMILE), for the correction of myopia and myopic astigmatism, the number of discarded corneal stromal lenticules is...
Organ transplantation is the therapy of choice for end-stage organ failure. However, there is a constant shortage of life-saving grafts both globally and locally. Notably, the organ donation rate of Hong Kong is amongst the lowest in the world, wher...
Hepatitis B is a viral infection causing inflammation of the liver, whereas chronic hepatitis B infection can lead to serious outcomes including cirrhosis, liver cancer and liver failure. While universal infant vaccination against hepatitis B virus ...
The Hong Kong Cancer Registry reported that a total of 34,028 new cancer cases were diagnosed in Hong Kong in 2018, whereas 16,988 of them were diagnosed in women. The number of new cases in women have increased by 4.9% as compared to 2017. Particul...
The burden of kidney diseases is substantial that the disease affects about 10% of global population and its prevalence continues to increase. Essentially, kidney diseases are associated with various comorbidities including cardiovascular diseases (...
Therapeutic Sequencing Strategy in Multiple Myeloma Date: 24 th June 2021 (Thursday) Time: 19:00 - 20:40 (GMT+8, HKT) Meeting format: Zoom meeting Address: Salon Room III, Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, 18 Hanoi Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon The survival o...
Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) describes a heterogeneous spectrum of persistent inflammatory diseases affecting the paranasal sinuses. In particular, CRS with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) represents the subtype of CRS considered to have a clinically more sev...
Breast cancer ranks the first place among female cancers in Hong Kong, with the incidence increased nearly 4 times within the past 25 years. Although a wide spectrum of therapies for breast cancer is currently available, the prognosis of the disease...
Over the past 25 years, significant progress has been made in the treatment of multiple myeloma (MM) as reflected by the improved overall survival (OS). However, in relapsed and refractory MM (RRMM), median OS decreases with each extra line of thera...
