The Hong Kong Cancer Institute (HKCI) was established in 1990 as a focus of activities related to cancer and its problems. Its specific purposes are (1) to co-ordinate, promote and organize activities relating to the prevention and treatment of cancer; (2) to promote and provide training in cancer research; (3) to educate the public on methods of prevention and early treatment of cancer; (4) to improve the welfare of cancer patients; and (5) to organize seminars, workshops and conferences for advancing its objectives.
HKCI through its predecessor, the Cancer Research Group, has already established an exchange programme with the Tumour Hospital and Cancer Research Centre of the Zhongshan Medical Sciences University. The HKCI will be based at the newly built Cancer Centre at the Prince of Wales Hospital where specialised diagnostic and therapeutic procedures relating to cancer patients will be performed. In addition, there will be ample facilities for counselling and modern research.