According to statistics from the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), the incidence of lung cancer in Taiwan only continues to grow: in 1955, 2.67 males and 1.25 females out of 100,000 persons contracted the disease; in 1991, the respective figures were 25.42 and 10.85 per 100,000.
根據國家衛生研究院統計，台灣肺癌的盛行率每年節節高昇，一九五五年男性每十萬人口有 2.67 人，女性 1.25 人；一九九一年，增加至男性 25.42 人，女性 10.85 人。