Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/12/27
By: Chang Ming-shuan and Flor Wang
Taipei, Dec. 27 (CNA) Taiwan’s circadian clock for cancer has continued to run
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faster, with 676 more people diagnosed in 2016 over 2015, colon cancer being the most common form, the Health Promotion Administration said Thursday.
According to a report issued by the administration, a total of 105,832 people were diagnosed with various types of cancer in 2016, which means that there was a new cancer case every four minutes and 58 seconds — shortened from every five minutes in 2015.
In 2016, the median age for a cancer diagnosis was 63 years, the same as the previous year, the report said.
Colon cancer continued to be the cancer affecting the highest number of Taiwanese people for the 11th consecutive year, followed by lung cancer, breast cancer, liver cancer and oral cancer. [FULL STORY]
