Table 1.

Study population of patients dying for cancer in Emilia-Romagna between 2017 and 2020, by tumour site: number (white background) and percentage (grey background)

Head and neck	1439
	2.6
Digestive	17 575
	31.6
Respiratory	10 098
	18.2
Muscoloskeletal	409
	0.7
Skin	1472
	2.7
Nervous system	1892
	3.4
Breast	3583
	6.4
Genital (women)	2548
	4.6
Genital (men)	215
	0.4
Urinary	4043
	7.3
Prostate	2253
	4.1
Haematologic	5874
	10.6
Other/metastatic	4224
	7.6
Region	55 625
	100.0