# Taiwan Biobank

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## TL;DR

Taiwan's national population biobank, which follows more than 200,000 volunteers over years and links their samples to national health insurance records to study disease, including cancer, in people of Chinese ancestry.

## Summary

The Taiwan Biobank home page (Chinese), read on 4 November 2026, gives enrolment to 31 October 2026 as 203,147 participants, of whom 108,166 had completed a first round of follow-up, 30,285 a second and 1,823 a third. It describes itself as a biobank of long-term follow-up of people of Chinese ancestry with vertically integrated release of samples and data, linked to the national health insurance database, with consent and withdrawal procedures and ISO-certified personal-data and information-security management.

## Fields

- Kind: Collection
- Last checked: 2026-11-04
- Also known as: 臺灣人體生物資料庫; TWB
- URL: https://www.twbiobank.org.tw/
- Holds: Samples and health data from 203,147 participants in Taiwan (counted to 31 October 2026), with repeat follow-up visits (108,166 completed the first round, 30,285 the second, 1,823 the third) and linkage to the national health insurance database.

## Notes

- The 'cancer' in the plain-language summary refers to its use as a general population cohort; the home page does not single out cancer and no cancer finding is claimed.
- The English site path tried (/en/) returned no content, so facts are from the Chinese home page.

## Sources

- Taiwan Biobank: https://www.twbiobank.org.tw/

## Connected records

- collections: [BioBank Japan (BBJ)](https://onco.cc/collections/biobank-japan/), [UK Biobank](https://onco.cc/collections/uk-biobank/)
- technologies: [Biobanking and tissue procurement](https://onco.cc/technologies/biobanking/)

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