“She’d bring me to her workplace when I was a kid,” recalls Chui, now 34. “I basically followed her everywhere.”

And even after Chui became a mother herself, she still followed her around.

In early 2015, Chui’s mother was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukaemia, a type of cancer that is characterised by an increase in white blood cells. The condition was discovered when her mother found her mouth bleeding heavily when brushing her teeth one day.

The Hong Kong Blood Cancer Foundation estimates there are more than 1,000 new blood cancer cases in the city each year. Blood cancer is the tenth most common cancer locally.

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