The 35 th Anniversary of Hong Kong Peritoneal Dialysis First Policy The health burden of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is substantial and has been increasing gradually in Hong Kong, whereas dialysis is the lifeline for the majority of patients with...
Constipation: A Neglected Condition? Constipation is a common gastrointestinal disorder which adversely impacts the quality of life of patients and creates significant economic burden for the society such as increasing absenteeism from work and/or s...
The 9 th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Hong Kong Society of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery Liver cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related death globally. The prognosis of liver cancers is usually poor, and predicting life expec...
The Live Symposium on Breast Health Education 2021 Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women both globally and locally, whereas the number of locally diagnosed female breast cancer cases has increased by 4 times from 1993 to 2018. This ind...
The Uro-Oncology Asia 2021 Significant advances in urological cancer treatments have been emerging in recent years. For instance, immunotherapy continues to play an increasingly important role and innovations in biomarkers help select patients for s...
Management of Relapsed and Refractory Multiple Myeloma Date: 25 February 2021 (Thursday) Time: 19:15 - 20:40 (GMT+8, HKT) Meeting format: Zoom meeting Webinar on Management of Relapsed and Refractory Multiple Myeloma Multiple myeloma (MM) is charact...
The webinar on Clinical Approach to Dementia Screening was successfully held on 28th October 2020. Dementia is a progressive brain disorder with the decline in cognitive and intellectual functions such as memory, comprehension and learning capacity...
Since June 2020, a webinar series known as Guerbet APAC TV so far has reached 81 countries/regions worldwide since it has been broadcasted. This year their 6 live webinars cover various topics in diagnostic imaging such as the application of artif...
The Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Hong Kong (EDMHK) 2 nd Annual Meeting The Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Hong Kong (EDMHK) 2019 meeting held on 26th – 27th October 2019 was jointly organised by the University of Hong Kon...
International Conference of Chinese Rheumatologists (ICCR) 2019 The ICCR 2019 was successfully held on 30th November and 1 st December 2019. The ICCR is organised by the Hong Kong Society of Rheumatology (HKSR) and is one of the few occasions which ...
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is one of the leading causes of death globally. Alterations in epidermal growth factor receptor gene (EGFR) are among the most common driver mutations in NSCLC. EGFR mutations are present in 16-19% of Caucasian pat...
Given the complex anatomical structure of the pelvis, gynaecologic surgeries are susceptible for perioperative bleeding, whereas massive bleeding can be life-threatening unless resuscitation is accomplished promptly. Preoperative evaluation of the p...
