Taiwan also lags behind in the treatment of serious childhood illnesses. For example, childhood leukemia typically has a good prognosis, but in Taiwan the cure rate for this disease is 40-70 %, compared to 80-90 % in advanced countries.
此外，在兒童重大疾病的治療方面，以預後頗佳的兒童白血病為例，台灣的治癒率雖達 40-70％，但比起先進國家的 80-90％，仍略遜一籌。