Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is becoming increasingly prevalent with the improvement
of people's living standards in recent years, especially in urban areas. The emerging …

Purpose To compile validation findings of diagnosis codes and related algorithms for health
outcomes of interest from National Health Insurance (NHI) or electronic medical records in …

Background/Purpose Little is known about the annual changes in cancer incidence and
survival that occurred after the establishment of the long-form cancer registry database in …

The Taiwan Cancer Registry (TCR) is a nationwide population-based cancer registry system
that was established by the Ministry of Health and Welfare in 1979. The data of patients with …

Objective To measure the effects of faecal immunochemical test (FIT) for colorectal cancer
(CRC) screening on overall and site-specific long-term effectiveness of population-based …

Chemotherapy is generally considered as the main treatment for metastatic gastric
adenocarcinoma. The role of gastrectomy for metastatic gastric cancer without obvious …

Background & Aims We aimed to assess the secular trend of the global prevalence of
Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) infection in adults and children/adolescents and to show its …

Importance Few studies have evaluated long-term surgical complications in patients with
prostate cancer (PC) who receive open radical prostatectomy (ORP), laparoscopic radical …

Purpose. Lung cancer has been the top‐ranking cause of cancer deaths in Taiwan for
decades. Limited data were available in global cancer surveillance regarding lung cancer …

Background: Head and neck cancer (HNC) has become a burden in Taiwan especially with
oral cancer becoming one of the highest incidence in the world. In this study, we evaluated …