MEDICINE
ONCOLOGY
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In Peru, lung cancer is the 4th with the highest incidence
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In Peru, mortality from lung cancer in men is the highest
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In Peru, lung cancer is the 6th with the highest incidence in women
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In Peru, mortality from lung cancer in women is the 6th highest
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Detailed explanation-1: -Peru: new cancer cases 2020, by type That year, Peru registered 85.5 cancer deaths per one hundred thousand inhabitants.
Detailed explanation-2: -Overall, the chance that a man will develop lung cancer in his lifetime is about 1 in 16; for a woman, the risk is about 1 in 17. These numbers include both people who smoke and those who don’t smoke. For people who smoke the risk is much higher, while for those who don’t, the risk is lower.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lung cancer is the 2nd most common cancer worldwide.
Detailed explanation-4: -Lung cancer is the most common cancer among women in 1 nation: North Korea. Micronesia/Polynesia is the region with the highest incidence of lung cancer worldwide at 52.2/100, 000 cases among men, while Hungary is the nation with the highest incidence at 77.4/100, 000 among men.