Cancer Prevention

Cancer has led in the top 10 causes of death for Taiwanese people since 1982. The incidence rate and mortality show upward increasing trend year by year with substantial impact on the people’s health. The Executive Yuan Ministry of Health and Welfare Health Promotion Administration launched the “early cancer screening” to focus on the screening of four common cancers, including breast cancer, cervical cancer, colorectal cancer, and oral cavity cancer. These four types are cancers proven for lowered mortality through early screening detection, early discovery and early treatment.

Currently the government subsidizes the following policy and target for four cancer screenings：

• 1. Mammography: 45-69 year-old women or 40-44 year-old women with family history in second kinship of breast cancer; one examination in every two years.

• 2. Pap smear: female over 30 years old shall take one examine a year or at least one examination in every three years.

• 3. Oral mucosa examination: Those over 30 years old and are currently chewing betel nuts (including those who have quitted) or public with smoking habits, or indigenous people who are 18-29 years old and chew betel nut (including those who have quitted) shall take one examination every 2 years.

• 4. Colorectal examination: 50-69 years old shall take one every two years.

• Note: Mammography is reservation based. Please reserve for examination via phone.

Organ Donation

The “Human Organ Transplant Act” was promulgated in 1987 for implementation. The efforts exerted by the domestic medical industry in Taiwan have eventually driven the organ transplant technology to advance while the safety and effectiveness of surgery have substantially improved with remarkable performance. Taiwan Organ Registry and Sharing Center upholds to the concept of “organ donation and extension of life” in attempt to work for the continuation of human life. Apart from optimizing the philosophy of love, the center cooperates with “Human Organ Transplant Act” with good intention and other relevant laws and regulations to promote organ donation and transplant, establish organ transplant data, advocate for organ donation and effective use, and thereby enhance the national health.

In 2002, Superintendent Jeng, Long-Bin led the transplant team and completed the first successful case in liver transplant surgery for Chine Medical University Hospital, which also opened a new chapter for the organ transplant of CMUH. Due to the full tacit understanding in cooperation, the transplant team has accomplished distinguished performance and extended countless number of lives, improving the future living quality of patients.

Vaccination

In the 2016-2019 interim policy objectives and guidelines on “Establishing Excellent Disease Prevention and Contingency System and Moving Towards the New Century of Disease Prevention” of Ministry of Health and Welfare, the section regarding vaccination aims to assure the stable and adequate financing for vaccination, sustainability in promoting vaccination process, application of various preventions and vaccination, and improvement of national immunity. The national vaccine funds planning and prevention vaccination plan offers vaccination for enterovirus, influenza, tuberculosis, and hepatitis B. In 2016, the comprehensive vaccination against influenza helped children, elderly and those with relatively weaker immunity to produce antibiotics against contagious diseases to avoid the invasion from virus, thereby meeting the objectives for “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

The Ministry of Health and Welfare Center for Disease Control (CDC) convened experts and researchers to form the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and regularly develop the targets and schedule suggested for vaccination in sum of empirical medicine and local Taiwan data according to the statistics on the epidemic severity and the ration of post-infection result in life jeopardy. The public can consult with the pediatric department or department of family medicine for vaccination related requirement and questions. The public is required to notify the physician before vaccination if the patient suffers from major disease, fever or cold, drug allergy or is taking medication. The physician will determine after the consultation. Additionally, CMUH tourism medical outpatient includes personalized tourism health risk assessment and infectious disease prevention (vaccination consultation). The physician specializes in controlling the health of people during tourism by providing comprehensive medical consultation for tourism.

The human health is substantially affected by the environment. Apart from facing the threat from virus, the hazardous substance in the environment often directly or indirectly jeopardizes the human health due to industrial environment and food additives, as well as triggering certain specific diseases such as PM2.5 in air pollution, new Type A influenza, plasticizer, leakage of nuclear radiation in Japan, melamine with Chinese milk scandal and public health incidents in recent years. To resolve the psychological panic and concerns in the public, the Ministry of Health and Welfare not only announces relevant information via the press and website but also sets up special clinic at the medical institutions in response to specific incidents, thereby providing the public with immediate consultation and diagnosis services.