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Table 3-3 Relative Survival Rates for Five Major Types of Cancer Over 5-Year Period

Oral Cancer (including
Breast Cancer Cervical Colorectal Lung Cancer
Stage oropharynx and hypopharynx)
(%) Cancer (%) Cancer (%) (%)
(%)
Stage 0 100 99.5 94.2 78.7 100

Stage 1 100 90.6 92.5 84.7 94.3
Stage 2 95.1 71.9 84.2 75.1 59.2

Stage 3 79.7 59.4 70.8 61.8 31.6
Stage 4 36.2 22.8 15.2 38.2 12.6

Source: Taiwan Cancer Registry database (includes carcinoma in situ)
Notes: 1. The hospital-reported data on five-year survival rates for five major types of cancer reported by hospitals from 2016 to 2020
(followed up until 2021) were analyzed.
2. According to the screening data and five-year survival rates for patients diagnosed with stages 0 and 1 oral cavity cancer
by MOHW, approximately 65% of the stage 0 cases have been classified under "precancerous lesions" in actual practice.
Consequently, the number of stage 0 cases (306 entries) has significantly less compared to that of stage 1 cases (7,906 entries).
This in turn has caused significant fluctuations in the data for survival rate.
3. Relative 5-year survival rate: the corrected competing risk survival rate would be the survival rate from the cancer. Relative
survival rate = Observed survival rate / Expected survival rate x100%.

fecal occult blood test healthcare institutions. By Section 2 Health Surveillance
the end of 2022, 125 units, 219 units, and 153
Continued to advance health surveillance surveys
units, respectively, had successfully passed the
for population at all stages of the lifespan, collected
assessments.
and utilized comprehensive monitoring data for the
2. Improving the Quality of Cancer Care life course health promotion, diets and nutrition, and
Certification of the cancer care quality for hospitals prevention and control of non-communicable disease
started in 2008, a total of 66 hospitals had been (Figure 3-5).
certified; more than 85% of cancer patients are
treated in these hospitals.

Chapter 4 Health Communication and
Health Surveillance

Section 1 Health Communication
Promoted diverse dissemination of health
information, enhanced public health literacy, and
delivered health information and educational materials
through the "Health 99 Plus" website, with an average
monthly visitation of 500,000 individuals. Disseminated
health information through Facebook fan pages,
LINE@ official accounts, and YouTube video channels,
reaching an average monthly audience of 1.5 million
people.

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