Taipei Times
Date: May 12, 2019 
By: Lee I-chia  /  Staff reporter

On average 35 women are diagnosed with breast cancer every day in Taiwan, with Taipei and New Taipei City having the highest incidence rates in the nation, the Formosa Cancer Foundation said yesterday.

On the eve of Mother’s Day yesterday, the foundation held its annual walking event to raise breast cancer awareness in Taipei, the foundation said.

The number of cancer patients in Taiwan is continuously growing, with an average of one person diagnosed with cancer every 4 minutes, 58 seconds, it said.

“Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer affecting women in Taiwan, and the incidence rate continues to grow,” foundation chief executive officer Lai Gi-ming (賴基銘) said.    [FULL  STORY]