The Duanwu Festival, also often known, especially in the West, as the Dragon Boat Festival, is a traditional holiday originating in China, occurring near the summer solstice. The festival now occurs on the 5th day of the 5th month of the traditional Chinese calendar. The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, so the date of the festival varies from year to year on the Gregorian calendar. In 2018, it occurs on June 18.

To celebrate Dragon Boat Festival and to brighten patients’ life in their hospitalization, staff in St. Stamford Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou will bring cancer patients from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries and their families together to eat Zongzi, watch dragon boats racing, to feel the charming atmosphere of traditional Chinese culture and celebrate the special day.

*Surgery, in addition to the appropriate chemotherapy and radiotherapy, are effective in treating early cancer, but certain patients in late stage of cancer may not be tolerate surgery well as they can be relatively weak. A combination of carefully planned minimally invasive therapy, chemotherapy or radiotherapy can effectively reduce the side effects and discomfort of treatment and may help patient get better efficacy.