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

The Latin American country with the highest age-standardized cancer mortality rate in 2022 was Uruguay, with ***** deaths per 100,000 population. Jamaica and Barbados followed, with cancer mortality rates of ***** and *****, respectively. As of that year, breast cancer was the cancer type with the highest incidence rate in Uruguay, as approximately ***** new cases were reported in the country.