Cancer: mortality rate in Latin America & the Caribbean 2022, by type
The cancer type with the highest age-standardized mortality rate in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2022 was prostate cancer with 13.9 deaths per 100,000 population. Breast cancer ranked second, with a mortality rate of 13.2 people per 100,000 population. In that year, breast cancer was the cancer type with the highest prevalence in the region.