In its first-ever report on child cancer rates, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) last week revealed that 542 people under 18 years old were in 2018 diagnosed with cancer, the equivalent of nearly 1.5 every day.
While boys were more likely to develop cancer at 308 cases to 234 among girls, leukemia was the most common type for both groups, comprising 30 percent of new diagnoses, the report showed.
The next most-common types were lymphoma, germ cell tumors, central nervous system tumors and carcinoma.
However, children have a better five-year survival rate than adults at 80 percent to about 60 percent, HPA Cancer
HPA warns to drink in moderation over holiday
By Yang Yuan-ting and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
As the Lunar New Year holiday approaches, and with it year-end banquets, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) on Friday said that “forcing others to play drinking games” topped a list of unacceptable ways to coerce others to drink.
The agency, citing an online list of unacceptable methods to convince others to drink alcohol, said that many traffic accidents are the result of people being forced to drink at year-end events.
The agency cited a list compiled by the Web site Daily View on the top 10 least-accepted ways of forcing others to drink, which placed at No. 2 telling partygoers that no one was leaving until they were drunk.