Naila Zahir, Azhar Mubarik, Parveen Abdullah, Abid Mehmood, Zahur Ur Rehman.
Pattern of Malignant Tumors in Karachi is it different?.
J Coll Physicians Surg Pak Jan ;10(9):338-41.

This was a retrospective study conducted at the Department of Pathology, PNS Shifa Naval Hospital, Karachi, with the objective to determine the ten commonest malignant tumors during the period from January, 1995 - December, 1997. A total of 634 cases were analyzed, male-female ratio was 1.5:1. The age range in males was 1-92 years and in females 8-85 years. The commonest malignancy in male was prostatic carcinoma (7.95%), followed by urinary bladder cancer (7.69%), lung cancer (7.18%), skin cancer (5.89%) and lymphoma (5.38%) while in females, breast cancer predominated (22.95%), followed by gall bladder (7.38%), endometrium (6.15%), skin (5.33%) and esophagus (4.92%). Endometrial and ovarian cancers occurred with a greater frequency than cervical cancer.

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