Cancer incidence rate in Latin America & the Caribbean 2022, by type
In 2022, the cancer type with the highest age-standardized incidence rate in Latin America and the Caribbean was prostate cancer with 57.5 new cases per 100,000 population. It was followed by breast cancer, with an incidence rate of nearly 52 people per 100,000 population. That year, prostate cancer was the type of cancer with the highest mortality rate in the region.