Every year, the Department of Health publishes lists of Taiwan's ten most prevalent causes of death and ten most prevalent cancers. Originally intended to raise public awareness of cancer prevention, the simplification of the data and the media's sensationalistic coverage of the reports has turned cancer awareness into cancerophobia.
行政院衛生署每年年中公布國人 10 大死因及 10 大癌症統計，本是好事一樁，有助民眾提升防癌意識，但在訊息簡化及媒體聳動報導下，對癌症的認知往往發酵成癌症恐懼。