New cancer cases among females in Italy 2008-2016, by macro region
Between 2008 and 2016, around 485 out of 100 thousand females were diagnosed with cancer in Italy. The number of new cases was the highest in the Northern part of the country, where 512 every 100 thousand individuals suffered from cancer. Conversely, in the South the incidence rate was 423 per 100 thousand inhabitants. These figures were