Cancer is one of the public health problems in many countries or regions of the world. The incidence, mortality, and prevalence of cancer allow us to quantifying the magnitude of this pathology and guide public policies concerning prevention and health services. The high economic and social cost that the care of these patients represents means that the prevalence, form of evolution, and prognosis differ from one country to another. In Peru, cancer represents the leading cause of death. By 2018, according to Globocan, more than 66,000 new cases were diagnosed and more than 33,000 deaths from cancer were registered. The three most common pathologies in women were breast cancer (19%), cervical (11%) and stomach cancer (7%), and in men prostate cancer (25%), stomach (10%) and cancer colorectal (7%); and the main causes of death were stomach (13.9%), lung (8.6%) and prostate cancer (8.2%). Th...

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