Number of cancer deaths MENA 2022, by cancer type
In 2022, 72 thousand people died from trachea, bronchus and lung cancer in the Middle East and North Africa region. This was by far the largest number of deaths caused by any other type of cancer in the region. Liver, intrahepatic bile ducts, and breast cancer had the second highest death count during the same period. Penis cancer accounted for the least number of cancer-related deaths in that year.