Taking steps to up cancer fight

Sunway Medical Centre Cancer, Radiosurgery and Nuclear Medicine Department manager and chief medical physicist Dr Heng Siew Ping (left) and Dr Aqilah with the Radixact-X9 Tomotherapy.

CANCER is the fourth most common cause of death in Malaysia, with approximately 37,000 cases reported every year.

It is estimated that this number will rise to more than 55,000 newly-diagnosed cases by 2030.