Taiwan’s national cancer diagnosis has been on the rise
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/12/29
By: Juvina Lai, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — According to the national cancer registration statistics released by
HPA Cancer Control and Prevention Division Director Wu Chien-yuan (吳建遠) (By Central News Agency)
the Health Promotion Administration (HPA), about every five minutes, a person was diagnosed with cancer in the year 2015, which was about six seconds faster than in the previous year.
The statistics showed that in the year 2015 about 105,156 people were diagnosed with cancer. The average age of those diagnosed with cancer was 63, which was the same like 2014.
The top most common types of cancer diagnosed during 2015 were colon, lung, breast, liver, oral, prostrate, gastric, skin, thyroid and esophageal.
Colon cancer cases has seen a significant decrease in its number, a consistent trend for 10 years. [FULL STORY]