Hepatoma in Taiwan

台灣之肝癌

林東明(Tong-Ming Lin) ； 陳建仁(Chien-Jen Chen) ； 蔡淑芳(Shu-Fang Tsai) ； 蔡德興(Te-Hsen Tsai)

《中華民國公共衛生學會雜誌》 8卷2期 (1988/06) Pp. 91-100

https://doi.org/10.6288/JNPHARC1988-08-02-02

摘要

由於社會、經濟的進步及醫科學之發展，很多傳染病都被好好的控制了，但非傳染病卻變成了公共衛生的主要問題，而其發生率及死亡率則急速的增加，其中惡性腫瘤是最明顯的例子。在台灣惡性腫瘤在1954年時，占在十大死亡之第七位，在1961年時占在第五位，在1964年時占在第二，但在1982年以後就占在第一位了，惡性腫瘤之年令調整死亡率則由1954年至1983年止，男性由每拾萬人60.35增加到129.54，女性則60.25增加到82.04。男性肝癌則從1965年起占所有惡性腫瘤之死亡中的第一位，而女性肝癌則從1981年起占在第三位。
在台灣關於肝癌之研究很多，本文即敘述肝癌在省灣之流行病學狀況而討論到其病因學及預防之問題。

並列摘要

Due to the socio-economic progress and the improvement of biomedical sciences, many infectious diseases have been controlled in Taiwan. Non-infectious diseases, however, occupied the major public health problems. The incidence and mortality rates from these non-infectious chronic diseases have been increasing rapdily. Among them, malignant neoplasms are the most evident examples. Malignant neoplasm ranked as the seventh leading causes of death in Taiwan in 1954, in 1961 the fifth, in 1964 the second and since 1982 it has become the leading cause of death. The age-adjusted death rates of malignant neoplasms increased from 60.35 to 129.54 per 100,000 for the male and 60.25 to 82.04 for the female, respectively, from 1954 to 1983. Hepatoma has ranked the first among the deaths of malignant neoplasms in males since 1965, and the third in females since 1981 [1,2,3].
A lot of study on hepatoma has been conducted in Taiwan. The present communication describes epidemiologic feature of hepatoma in Taiwan and discusses the etiologic mechanisms and prevention.

並列關鍵字

Hepatoma ； Epidemiology ； Etiology ； Prevention