06/02/2023
Almería leads the drop in deaths from cancer in Andalusia.
In the first semester of 2022 they fell by 7% compared to 2011, according to the latest data from the INE
Almería is the Andalusian province where deaths caused by cancer have fallen the most in the first half of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021, according to the latest data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
Statistics reveal that in Almería a total of 687 people died from cancer between January and June 2022 (441 men and 246 women), 52 fewer than in the same period of the previous year, when 739 died (452 men and 287 women).
This represents a decrease of 7.13%, the largest by far in all of Andalusia, where also only in another province, Córdoba, deaths from tumors also decreased. In his case, they have gone from 988 in 2021 to 988 in 2022.
In the rest of the Andalusian provinces, cancer victims increased in those first months of 2022. The greatest increase in deaths occurred in Malaga, which went from 1,808 between January and June 2021 to 1,910 in 2022, that is, 5.6 % further.
Lung tumor The type of cancer that produced the most deaths in the first half of 2022 in Almería was once again lung cancer, with 128. In this case, men continue to be the vast majority of victims, 110 (almost 86% of the total), compared to 18 women.
Despite this strong impact, the deaths were three less than the previous year. To***co is here the great cause of this tumor (also of others), and a large part of the campaigns of organizations that this Saturday, February 4, join the celebration of World Cancer Day are directed against it.
The Association in Almería celebrates an act in the capital with the support of the City Council, in the Plaza de la Constitución.
After lung cancer, colon cancer caused 76 deaths in Almería in the aforementioned period (52 men and 24 women), three fewer than the previous year. Third, cancer of the lymphatic tissue caused 49 deaths (33 in 2021), while tumors in "poorly defined sites" caused 42 deaths (47 in 2021).
Next, breast cancer was responsible for the death of 40 people in 2022 (39 women and one man), which was also seven fewer than in 2021.
According to the AECC in Almería, in the year 2030, in Spain there will be 330,000 cancer diagnoses, of which 4,531 people will be diagnosed in the province.
Source: La Voz de Almeria in English using Google Translate
