Background Cancer is a leading cause of disease and death in Latin America and the
Caribbean (LAC). Contemporary data on the cancer burden aims to inform effective cancer …

Abstract Background In Latin America and the Caribbean, the epidemiological transition has
been occurring in an unequal manner. Infectious-contagious diseases share space with the …

Cancer is one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide, and an increasing threat in low-
income and middle-income countries. Our findings in the 2013 Commission in The Lancet …

Peru, like several other South American countries, is experiencing remarkable population
growth, ageing, and urbanisation, which has given rise to profound changes in its …

Objective. To develop a situation analysis encompassing the patterns and trends in cancer
incidence and mortality in South and Central America and the Caribbean, with comparisons …

Purpose Cancer in a country like Mexico is a challenge for the current health system and for
public health. However, the statistics about cancer in Mexico are scarce, so epidemiologic …

This article provides a status report on the global burden of cancer worldwide using the
GLOBOCAN 2018 estimates of cancer incidence and mortality produced by the International …

In this special issue dedicated to cancer, Colombia Medica discloses an analysis of the
cancer situation in Colombia and Ecuador. The analysis is based on the data collected and …

Non-communicable diseases, including cancer, are overtaking infectious disease as the
leading health-care threat in middle-income and low-income countries. Latin American and …

We estimated mortality figures for 2019 in seven Latin American countries, with focus on
breast cancer. We retrieved cancer death certification and population data from the WHO …