Every 8 minutes and 15 seconds, somebody in Taiwan is diagnosed with cancer. For four years running breast cancer has been the leading cancer among women, and the number of cases has continued to grow by 7-8 % annually. Taiwan is by no means an isolated case.
在台灣，每 8 分 15 秒就有一人被醫生宣判罹患癌症；其中乳癌更連續 4 年高居我國女性癌症好發率的榜首，並以每年 7 ∼ 8％的速度，持續增加中。