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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 >99.9 99.6 93.4 76.0 >99.9
Stage 1 >99.9 91.5 92.7 85.3 94.6
Stage 2 95.6 73.6 83.3 75.2 62.1
Stage 3 80.5 55.4 71.1 61.3 33.2
Stage 4 39.4 22.5 15.4 38.3 13.1
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 2017 to 2021
(followed up until 2022) 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%.
2. Improving the Quality of Cancer Care Section 2 Health Surveillance
Certification of the cancer care quality for hospitals Continued to advance health surveillance surveys
began in 2008, with a total of 67 hospitals certified for population at all stages of the lifespan, collected
by 2023; more than 85% of cancer patients are and utilized comprehensive monitoring data for the
treated in these hospitals. life course health promotion, diets and nutrition, and
prevention and control of non-communicable disease
Chapter 4 Health Communication and (Figure 3-5).
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 630,000 individuals.
Health information is spread through Facebook fan
pages, LINE@, and Instagram official accounts, with
an average monthly reach of 1.25 million people on
Facebook fan pages.
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