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214 Dominican Republic Fact Sheet
214 Dominican Republic Fact Sheet
214 Dominican Republic Fact Sheet
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Number of new cases Number of deaths Number of prevalent cases
(5-year)
Mortality*
Risk of dying from cancer before the age 9.8 8.9 9.3
of 75 years (cum. risk %)
Prevalence* Kilometers
Prostate
Others
Others Breast
Others
Prostate
Stomach
Breast
Liver
Liver
Cervix uteri Cervix uteri
Lung Lung
Lung Colorectum
Colorectum Colorectum
Rank Cancer site Number of cases Percent Rank Cancer site Number of cases Percent Rank Cancer site Number of cases Percent
1st Prostate 4 918 45.8% 1st Breast 3 244 34.4% 1st Prostate 4 918 24.4%
2nd Colorectum 906 8.4% 2nd Cervix uteri 967 10.2% 2nd Breast 3 244 16.1%
3rd Lung 896 8.3% 3rd Colorectum 876 9.3% 3rd Colorectum 1 782 8.8%
4th Liver 453 4.2% 4th Lung 724 7.7% 4th Lung 1 620 8.0%
5th Stomach 415 3.9% 5th Liver 396 4.2% 5th Cervix uteri 967 4.8%
Number of new cases in 2022, males, all ages Number of new cases in 2022, females, all ages Number of new cases in 2022, both sexes, all ages
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Incidence, Mortality and Prevalence by cancer site
Cancer Number Rank (%) Cum.risk Number Rank (%) Cum.risk Number Prop. (per 100 000)
Cervix uteri 967 5 15.6 1.6 622 6 9.9 1.1 3 010 5.9
Brain CNS 405 10 3.4 0.33 315 10 2.7 0.28 1 488 2.9
Multiple myeloma 183 19 1.5 0.19 155 14 1.3 0.15 514 1.0
Lip, oral cavity 161 21 1.3 0.15 67 18 0.53 0.06 472 0.92
Method: Estimated from national mortality estimates by Breast 53.4 23.0 Breast 53.4
Mortality Lung
Liver
12.8
6.8
10.9
5.9
Lung
Liver
15.1
7.7
10.8
6.0
Country-specific data source: National (WHO) Stomach 6.2 4.7 Stomach 7.2 5.3
Prevalence
Pancreas 5.0 4.4 Pancreas 5.8 4.3
Computed using sex-; site- and age-specific incidence to 1-;3- Corpus uteri 3.4 1.0 Brain CNS 3.9 3.0
and 5-year prevalence ratios from Nordic countries for the period
Larynx 2.7 1.7 Corpus uteri 3.4
ASR (World) incidence and mortality rates, top 15 cancers** ASR (World) incidence rates per sex, top 15 cancers**
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References
Cancer incidence and mortality data
Sung H, Ferlay J, Siegel RL, Laversanne M, Soerjomataram I, Jemal A, Bray F. Global cancer statistics 2020:
Website citation GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries. CA Cancer J Clin.
Global Cancer Observatory: Cancer Today. Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer. Available
Ferlay J, Colombet M, Soerjomataram I, Parkin DM, Piñeros M, Znaor A, Bray F. Cancer statistics for the year 2020:
from: https://gco.iarc.who.int/today, accessed [DD Month YYYY].
An overview. Int J Cancer. 2021 Apr 5. doi: 10.1002/ijc.33588. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33818764.