Unfortunately, cancer patients in Taiwan face relatively low survival rates: for third-stage lung cancer, the survival rate over the last five years has been below 20 %, less than half the 40 % rate seen over the last three years in the US.
然而，與其他先進國家相較，我國癌症病患的存活率顯然偏低，以第三期的肺癌病患為例，我國五年的存活率不到兩成，不及美國（三年存活率為 40％）的一半。