The 1999 Cancer Prevention White Paper points out that in 1998 the amount of money spent on cancer research in Taiwan by government bodies (including the National Science Council, DOH, NHRI, and Academia Sinica) and various hospitals totaled only NT $ 370 million. This is a world away from the figure spent in the US--the equivalent of NT $ 800 billion.
「一九九九防癌白皮書」中指出，民國八十七年，台灣包括國科會、衛生署、國家衛生研究院、中研院及各醫學中心有關癌症的研究經費，總共是三億七千萬，與美國每年投入約合台幣八千億經費，實在天差地別。