Raising Awareness in the Fight Against Cancer

By Maxine Carr

May 2013 FEATURE
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At the launch of Relay for Life 2013 in E&O Hotel on March 16 with State Environment, Welfare and Caring Society Committee chairman Phee Boon Poh (centre).
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Cancer is now Malaysia’s third biggest killer. It is estimated that there are about 90,000-100,000 people in the country living with cancer at any one time and that one in four Malaysians will develop the disease by the age of 751. What these shocking statistics say is that most of our families will be affected by cancer in one form or another.Members of the cancer support group.Major advances in medical science now mean that cancer is not necessarily a death...

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Maxine Carr

is a research analyst at the Penang Institute.


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