According to the Department of Health, oral cancer became one of the ten most prevalent cancers in Taiwan in 1991 and has been getting more common ever since. It currently ranks fourth among men (behind liver cancer, lung cancer, and colon cancer) in terms of its incidence and its mortality.
據衛生署統計，1991 年起，口腔癌進入台灣 10 大癌症之林，之後名次節節升高，目前在男性癌症的死亡率和發生率都排名第 4（次於肝癌、肺癌、結直腸癌）。