"Many patients only come to seek treatment when they are in stage four. They want the most expensive medications and every kind of treatment available, but by then it is too late," says Andrew Huang, director of the Koo Foundation Sun Yat-sen Cancer Center. People in Taiwan do not give much thought to routine health maintenance, and they often only go to the doctor when it is too late.
「常有病人到第四期才來就醫，要求用最貴的藥、做一切的治療，但為時已晚」，癌症專門醫院、和信治癌中心醫院院長黃達夫指出，國人的健康常識普遍低落，就醫時早已延誤了時機。