Their loss inspired Kuo to give NTUH NT $ 15 billion in December 2008 to build a cancer center. Kuo, who has had check-ups at Taipei's Veterans 'General Hospital's VGH-HT Imaging Center, realized that there were opportunities in the cancer testing market while undergoing a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan there, and even went so far as tell his doctors of his interest in expanding into the testing industry.
因此，郭台銘除了在 2008 年 12 月正式簽約、捐款台大 150 億元興建「質子治癌中心」外，他個人也曾到台北榮總所屬榮科醫學影像中心進行健康檢查，在享受磁振造影 (MRI) 服務的同時，也嗅出了癌症高階健檢市場的巨大商機，甚至向榮總醫師透露也想跨足健檢產業的強烈興趣。