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Taipei Times
Date: Jun 17, 2020
By: Lee I-chia / Staff reporter

Malignant tumors have been the leading cause of death in Taiwan for 38 consecutive years, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said yesterday, in reporting the top 10 causes of death for last year.

Last year, 50,232 people died of cancer, or 28.6 percent of all deaths, Department of Statistics official Chen Ya-li (陳雅俐) said, adding that the annual mortality rate rose 1.8 percent from a year earlier to 212.9 deaths per 100,000 population.

Most people who died from cancer last year were aged 55 or older, or about 85 percent of all cancer deaths, she said, adding that based on mortality rates, the six leading types of cancer deaths, based on mortality rates, was the same as the year before.

The top 10 causes of cancer death are bronchogenic carcinoma and lung cancer, followed by liver cancer and bile duct cancer, colorectal cancer, female breast cancer, oral cancer, prostate cancer, pancreas cancer, gastric cancer, esophageal cancer and ovarian cancer.
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