Lai Chiming notes that there are plenty of factors accounting for Taiwan's high cancer mortality rate. For example, insufficient experience has been accrued in the various applicable methods of treatment, and there is a lack of any overall framework governing medical approaches to the disease. Another important factor concerns the particular types of cancer that are prevalent in Taiwan.
國家衛生研究院台灣癌症臨床研究合作組織主任賴基銘指出，造成台灣癌症高死亡率的因素很多，除了治療方式沒有累積經驗、統籌出一套較易依循的醫療規則外，癌症的種類也是其中的重要原因。