The American Cancer Society, the world's largest cancer-prevention organization, spends US $ 700 million (about NT $ 24 billion) per year on its efforts. In Taiwan in 2008, the DOH's Bureau of Health Promotion spent nearly NT $ 2 billion on testing for breast and cervical cancers, and on efforts to discourage cigarette smoking.
例如，全球最大的防癌組織──美國癌症協會，其年度預算高達 7 億美金（約 240 億台幣），而身負我國官方防癌任務的衛生署國民健康局，2008 年也花費近 20 億台幣，執行乳癌篩檢、子宮頸抹片檢查、菸害（肺癌）防制等工作。