A new health ministry report out Friday says that the number of people with cancer in Taiwan reached nearly 100,000 in 2013.
The report also shows that the most common forms of cancer in 2013 were colon, lung, liver and breast cancer, in that order. According to the report, someone in Taiwan developed colon cancer once every 34.7 minutes that year.
Ministry official Chiou Shu-ti Chiu says that one in every 21 Taiwanese people between the ages of 50 and 74 has cancer or a pre-cancerous lesion during screening tests.
Chiu urges members of the public to have regular health checks, even when they do not feel unwell.