{"id":43602,"date":"2026-04-11T12:29:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=43602"},"modified":"2026-04-11T12:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:29:17","slug":"hong-kong-hairstylists-cancer-battle-takes-him-and-his-brother-on-a-crowdfunding-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=43602","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong hairstylist\u2019s cancer battle takes him and his brother on a crowdfunding campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/04\/09\/a37ff92c-b244-4475-bd89-5b64fbea8735_8fd36fe2.jpg?itok=eJriNJAp&amp;v=1775725883\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong hairstylist Pitt Cheung Kwok-wai\u2019s life took a sharp turn in 2020 when he was diagnosed with stage 3 nasopharyngeal cancer at the age of 38.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe never had cancer or serious illness in our family before, so it was very shocking,\u201d Cheung says.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Having treatment during the Covid-19 pandemic made the experience even more isolating, as it was difficult for friends and family members to visit him in hospital as he underwent several rounds of chemotherapy.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Due to its prevalence in southern China, <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">nasopharyngeal carcinoma<\/span> is often referred to as the \u201cCanton tumour\u201d. The leading type of head and neck cancer in Hong Kong, it develops in the nasopharynx, the upper throat area that connects the back of the nose to the rest of the respiratory tract. It has been linked to <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">the Epstein-Barr virus<\/span> (EBV) and to eating some traditional dishes such as salted fish.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">There were 700 new cases reported in the city in 2023, 549 of them in men, and it is the most common cancer for young men aged 20 to 44.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Before receiving his diagnosis, the signs that something might be amiss were subtle. Cheung did not have the obvious symptoms of nasopharyngeal cancer, such as nosebleeds or breathing difficulties. But a small lump had appeared on his neck nine months earlier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3349452\/hong-kong-hairstylists-cancer-battle-takes-him-and-his-brother-crowdfunding-campaign?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong hairstylist Pitt Cheung Kwok-wai\u2019s life took a sharp turn in 2020 when he was diagnosed with stage 3 nasopharyngeal cancer at the age&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[3028,3521,5638,280,20259,20258,3569,5231,1013],"class_list":["post-43602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-battle","tag-brother","tag-campaign","tag-cancer","tag-crowdfunding","tag-hairstylists","tag-hong","tag-kong","tag-takes","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}