According to the Department of Health, three of every ten deaths in Taiwan in 2007 were caused by cancer-malignant neoplasms accounted for 28.9 % of all deaths.
行政院衛生署統計，2007 年每 10 位國人死亡案例裡，就有 3 人是死於癌症（惡性腫瘤占全部死因的 28.9 %）。