Understanding Asian Cancers Through an Asian Lens

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On the 27th June 2025, the Tanoto Foundation announced the funding of Project ASPIRE led by the Cancer Discovery Hub. This project is focused on Asian-prevalent rare cancers, and see to understand their disease biology and the single cell level.

The research will investigate four types of cancers with high prevalence and poor outcomes in Asia, namely:

• Breast cancer in Asian women, marked by earlier onset and biological differences compared to Western populations

• T/NK-cell lymphomas, an aggressive blood cancer dominant in East Asians with limited treatment options

• Bile Duct cancer (cholangiocarcinoma), increasingly linked to environmental exposures specific to Asia

• Rare Asian cancers, collectively neglected but accounting for up to 25% of all cases in the region

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Cancer Discovery Hub

National Cancer Centre Singapore