Oral cancer is one of the most common cancers in Asia, but survival rates remain low, especially when the disease is diagnosed late. Even with surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, there are limited options for advanced or recurring cases. Our scientist, Yee Pei San, from the Translational Cancer Biology (TCB) Science [...]
To date, we have focused primarily on ovarian, breast, and head and neck cancers. We plan to expand work on other cancers. How We’ve Made a Difference Worked with the International Prostate Cancer Association Consortium (PRACTICAL) and the Subang Aging Men’s Study to identify a number of genetic loci associated [...]
We now know that some cancers are largely caused by lifestyle and environmental factors (like lung cancer is caused mostly by smoking), other cancers are caused by viral or bacterial factors (like cervical cancer is caused by human papilloma virus HPV), whereas some cancers are associated with faulty genes (like [...]
In 2020, 2.2 million people were diagnosed with lung cancer and 1.8 million died of the disease globally. Sadly, more Asians died of lung cancer compared to the rest of the world combined. Notably, because we now know more about the different types of lung cancer and the different treatments [...]
In 2020, 377,713 individuals were diagnosed with oral cancer and 177,757 died of the disease globally. Sadly, Asians account for 74% of the deaths due to oral cancer. In 2020, 133,354 individuals were diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer globally. Nasopharyngeal cancer is among the five most common cancers in Malaysia, and [...]
In 2020, 2.3 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer and 685,000 women died of the disease globally. Sadly, more Asian women died of breast cancer compared to the rest of the world combined, and the incidence of breast cancer is rising rapidly in Asians. Because it is the most [...]