Taiwan’s ‘cancer death clock’ worsens by 11 secondsBy Lee I-chia / Staff reporterTaiwan’s “cancer death clock” in 2018 worsened by 11 seconds to an average of one person diagnosed with cancer every four minutes and 31 seconds, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said yesterday, as it announced the nation’s top 10 cancers. Citing Taiwan Cancer Registry data from 2018, the HPA said that the “cancer death clock” sped up by 11 seconds from 2016. Photo: George Tsorng, Taipei TimesThe most common cancers of 2018 were colorectal cancer, followed by lung cancer, female breast cancer, liver cancer, oral cancer, prostate cancer, thyroid cancer, skin cancer, gastric cancer and cancer of the uterine corpus. The top five cancers among men were colorectal cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer, oral cancer and prostate cancer. The top five cancers among women were breast cancer, lung cancer, colorectal cancer, thyroid cancer and liver cancer.

Source: Taipei Times December 29, 2020 15:56 UTC