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Breast cancer is one of the leading cancers amongst Hong Kong women, but is also very curable in most cases if identified early enough through screening.  This has prompted the Club’s Charities Trust to support the Hong Kong Breast Cancer Foundation in a number of initiatives to help better meet the needs of at-risk women. For example, it made a donationto set up a Breast Health Centre in North Point in 2010, and another to implement a breast health education and screening programme in 2014.

Recently, the Trust has donated more than HK$76 million to fund the set-up of a second centre in Kowloon and run a three-year holistic Jockey Club Breast Care for You Programme upon completion of the Centre in 2017. More than 36,000 women will benefit, including 5,000 low income earners or those facing financial difficulties, who can receive mammography screening and assessment services free of charge.

Key services provided by the Hong Kong Breast Cancer Foundation Jockey Club Breast Health Centre (Kowloon) will include:

1. Educational Programmes – 120 workshops and seminars will be conducted while booths will be set up at nine large-scale exhibitions to raise public awareness of breast health.
2. Breast Health Assessment – An assessment service and free mammography screening will be provided for women aged 40 or above.
3. Support Services – A two-pronged approach to providing support for patients and their families will be adopted. Patients will be placed into support groups according to their stage of disease.
4. Lymphedema Service – For patients who have lymph nodes removed by surgery, lymphedema care services like index measurement and exercise classes will be provided.

The Club has long been a staunch supporter of Hong Kong’s medical development, donating more than HK$3.1 billion in this area in the past decade alone. For instance, it provided HK$500 million to establish the Centre for Health Protection in response to the SARS outbreak of 2003. Other projects funded include the establishment of a teaching hospital at The Chinese University of Hong Kong to provide high-quality and affordable medical services for sandwich-class patients; and the Hong Kong Jockey Club Innovative Learning Centre for Medicine to help position the city as a regional hub of excellence in simulation based-training.