| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 工業教育學系在職進修碩士班 === 100 === In view of the computed tomography (CT) has long been ranked the crown of top 10 declaration points statistics in the National Health Insurance and research indicates that people expose to the radiation by taking the medical examination might increase the possibility of suffering from cancer. Therefore, this study aims to explore the relationship between cancer and CT by using the data of the National Health Insurance Database. Patients who first time applied for catastrophic illness of cancer and leukemia in 2011 as case group, the control group consisted of paired sample adopted a simple random sampling method based on gender and age. The study found that the case group and the control group in the per capita use of CT with significant differences between 2000 to 2009. The case groups were slightly higher than the control groups in the average number of times and patients of CT utilization. By logistic regression analysis, the odds among variables of gender, age and the number of CT utilization in applying for the catastrophic illness of cancer in 2011 showed that the number of CT utilization, the use of one to five times achieved statistically significant difference. The overall trend is the more the number of CT use; the higher the odds of declaration of catastrophic illness of cancer. Gender fell short of statistical significance level. The CT utilization of leukemia did not reach statistical significant difference except those who use two times.
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