Request for updated information on the Number of Cancer New Cases and Registered Deaths by Ten Leading Cancer Disease Group by Sex (Table A15)

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Dear Department of Health,

I want to request updated information on the Number of Cancer New Cases and Registered Deaths by Ten Leading Cancer Disease Group by Sex from 2022 to 2023, in Excel format.

The table should be as same as Table A15 on Health Status and Health Services to the following URL (P.33):
https://www.dh.gov.hk/english/pub_rec/pu...

Yours faithfully,
Tony Tong

Department of Health

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Dear Tony,

Thank you for your enquiries dated 20.1.2024.

The "Table on Health Status and Health Services 2022" has been available
on the website of the Department of Health (URL:
[1]https://www.dh.gov.hk/english/pub_rec/pu...).
Please be informed that the registered death statistics for 2023 is under
compilation and will be finalised in Q4 of 2024.   In addition, according
to the Hong Kong Cancer Registry, Hospital Authority, data on the number
of new cancer cases is available up to 2021.

For information regarding deaths registered due to different cancer types
in 2022 grouped by sex, please refer to tables A13 and A14 of "Table on
Health Status and Health Services 2022". As requested, information on
registered deaths by Ten Leading Cancer Disease Group by sex for the year
2022 in excel format is attached for your reference.

 

Regards,
(YAU Tak Wai David)
for Director of Health

From:        Tony Tong <[FOI #1493 email]>
To:        FOI requests at Department of Health <[Department of Health request email]>
Date:        20/01/2024 19:19
Subject:        Freedom of Information request - Request for updated
information on the Number of Cancer New Cases and Registered Deaths by Ten
Leading Cancer Disease Group by Sex (Table A15)

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Dear Department of Health,

I want to request updated information on the Number of Cancer New Cases
and Registered Deaths by Ten Leading Cancer Disease Group by Sex from 2022
to 2023, in Excel format.

The table should be as same as Table A15 on Health Status and Health
Services to the following URL (P.33):
[2]https://www.dh.gov.hk/english/pub_rec/pu...

Yours faithfully,
Tony Tong

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