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*The mortality rate depicted is the age-standardized rate (ASR - European 2013): a weighted mean of the age-specific rates where the weights are taken from the population distribution of a standard population. The ASR is expressed per 100,000.
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Estimated cancer mortality rate in the EU in 2022, by site
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