China News Service, December 29. According to Taiwan's "United Daily News", the Taiwan authorities' health and welfare department released the latest cancer registration report in Taiwan on the 29th, stating that in 2020, an average of 1 person will develop cancer every 4 minutes and 19 seconds.
Among the top ten cancers in the island, colorectal cancer ranks first for 15 consecutive years.
According to the 2020 cancer registration report in Taiwan, the number of new cancers was 121,979, an increase of 725 people compared with 2019. The median age of all cancers in 2020 was 64 years old, the same as in 2019. The median age of major cancers , except that colorectal cancer, lung cancer and cervical cancer are postponed by 1 year, and skin cancer is 1 year earlier, and the rest are the same as in 2019.
Lin Liru, head of the Cancer Prevention and Control Team of Taiwan's "National Health Administration", said that the number of cancer cases is concentrated in those over 50 years old, accounting for 83%.
For some cancers, the median age of onset is earlier than all cancers, oral cancer and cervical cancer are 58 years old, breast cancer and uterine body cancer are 56 years old, and thyroid cancer is 50 years old.
The incidence of top ten cancers in Taiwan (total of men and women), in order of colorectal cancer, lung cancer, female breast cancer, liver cancer, oral cancer (including oropharyngeal and hypopharyngeal), prostate cancer, thyroid cancer, gastric cancer, skin cancer, non-Hejie cancer King's lymphoma.