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To assess the most common type of GIT tumor, most common site of this tumor, Sex and staging in people of Balochistan including patients from Afghanistan. Retrospective, Analytic study. This study was carried out at the was carried out at the Centre for Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy [CENAR], Quetta from January 2001 to December 2010. 8324 cases of different malignancies were seen over the 10 year period with an average of 833 cases/ year. This 10 year review of patients with GIT cancers was carried out at the Centre for Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy [CENAR], Quetta. Information extracted from the cases notes of patients in record i.e. most common type of tumor, most common site of this tumor, sex and staging. The most common type was GIT tumors with a total of 2278 patients. GIT cancer occur among male most commonly, the esophagus being the most commonest site and mostly [more than half] presented cases are in Stage III and Stage IV. This result shows that in Balochistan including adjustant Afghanistan most common type of cancer/malignancy was GI among all malignancies. GI malignancy occurs among male most commonly, the esophagus being the most common site. Mostly [more than half] presented cases are in Stage III and Stage IV cases. Cancer management is a global health problem specially in this part due to lack of awareness, early diagnosis, better treatment system in multidisciplinary team as indicated in this article need of future research in G.I.T and other tumors
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Aims and Objectives: A retrospective study of all thyroid patients registered at the centre of Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy [CENAR], Quetta from 1st January2010 to December 2011[02years]. The aim of this study was to highlight gender and age wise distribution of hypothyroid and hyperthyroid patients in CENAR Quetta
Study design: A retrospective study
Place and Duration: A retrospective study of 2051 files of Thyroid patients was carried out in CENAR Quetta from1st January 2010 to December 2011 [02years]
Results: Out of 2051 patients, the most common gender was female with a total of 1442 [Hypothyroid female: 487; Hyperthyroid female: 231; Euthyroid female: 724] and the common age group was 16-40yr with a total of 1453[16-40yr Hypothyroid male: 153 and Female: 337; 16-40yr Hyperthyroid male: 113 and Female: 139; 16-40yr Euthyroid male: 158 and Female: 553]
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Primary ovarian lymphoma presenting with ovarianmass as a primary disease is extremely rare. Wereport here a case of primary ovarian B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with bilateral involvementwhich was managed by surgery and chemotherapy.A 35 years old woman was admitted with signs andsymptoms suggestive of ovarian cancer. Thediagnosis of malignant lymphoma was establishedafter bilateral adnexectomy, histological andimmunohistochemical study of the excised tissue.The stage was I ES according to Ann-Arbor stagingsystem. The patient was planned for R-CHOPchemotherapy, but due to unaffordbility patient wastreated with 06 cycles of standard CHOP regimenand had completed her treatment. She has now beenon follow-up and is without disease from 15 monthsof treatment