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Paul P. L. Chang, MD, MPH, FACP

JAMA. 1989;262(14):1955-1956.

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In 1984, cancer surpassed cerebrovascular disease as the number one cause of death in Taiwan, with a total of 17 983 new cases reported—an incidence of 95.29 per 100 000 population. The leading site for cancer in men was the lung, and the leading site for women was the uterine cervix.¹ That year there were 13 383 registered physicians practicing western medicine and 1799 practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine, which include herbists, acupuncturists, and bone setters (unpublished data, Taiwan Provincial Health Dept and Taipei City and Kaohsiung City Health Departments, 1989).

For Taiwan, an island of about 20 million people, the medical care of cancer patients has been provided by physicians of almost every specialty. This situation is similar to that which existed in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s before the advent of efficacious chemotherapeutic agents and the establishment of medical oncology as a subspecialty. In . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Department of Medicine George Washington University Washington, DC

Footnotes
Edited by Annette Flanagin, RN, MA, Assistant to the Editor

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