The relationship of age, sex and marital status with the prevalence of cancer in the patients visiting Nishter hospital, Multan, Pakistan. | Pakistan Journal of Zoology 2004

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Tasawar Hussain Khan Institute of Pure & Applied Biology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

Shagufta Iqbal Institute of Pure & Applied Biology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

Muhammad Akram Department of Statistics, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

Aftab Shabbir Warriach Medical Unit, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

Abstract

On the basis of age and marital status data collected from Nishter Hospital Multan during the year 2000, cancers patients (n=1389) of both sexes (male = 691; female =698) were divided into seven age groups ranging from >2 to 10 to 20 to >30 >30 to 50 to 60. These patients were found to have 89 different types of cancers, the most prevalence being breast cancer (14.2%) followed by lymphoma (10.2%) and liver cancer (5.4%). The prevalence of cancer was similar in male and female (male = 49.8±1.3%; female=50.2±1.3%; P>0.05). It was however, higher (P60 years (26.0±0.02) and it was less prevalent in age group of

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Page(s) 53-57

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Published Journal: Pakistan Journal of Zoology, Volume: 36, Issue: 1, Year: 2004

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