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Smoking is down, so why are more Hong Kong women getting lung cancer?
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Hong Kong has seen a 20% rise in lung cancer cases among women over two decades despite declining smoking rates among women, prompting health experts to call for earlier detection and citywide screenings to identify non-smoking-related risk factors.

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Smoking is down, so why are more Hong Kong women getting lung cancer?
In the second of a six-part Health Matters wellness series on cancer in Hong Kong, Elizabeth Cheung examines the rise of lung cancer among women, the risk factors beyond smoking and growing calls for earlier detection. Rates of new lung cancer cases among Hong Kong women have risen by 20 per cent in the past two decades despite their smoking less than men, a South China Morning Post review has found, prompting calls for citywide screenings to catch the disease earlier. Experts said genetic...
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