Brazil had the highest number of new cancer cases in 2022 for both women and men in Latin America and the Caribbean, with 307,482 and 319,711 new cases, respectively, reaching a total of over half a million cases. Mexico and Argentina followed, with 207,154 and 133,420 total new cases, respectively. That year, the country with the highest incidence rate of cancer in the region was Uruguay.Â
Number of new cases of cancer in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2022, by gender
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