Latin America: cancer incidence rate 2020
the deadliest type of cancer in Argentina was lung cancer, causing 10.73 thousand deaths in the country that year.
In 2020, the country with the highest age-standardized cancer incidence rate among the selected Latin American countries was Uruguay, with 269.3 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants. This was followed by Argentina and Brazil, with cancer incidence rates of 218.2 and 215.4, respectably. Meanwhile, there were 123.1 new cases of cancer per 100,000 people living in Guatemala. During that year,