Farrukh Kamal, Sabiha Hamid, Tariq Mahmood Tahir, Sajjad Haider, Farooq Aziz, Zarfishan Tahir, Amir Waheed, Amina Ashraf, Farah Tabassum.
Profile of Malignant Tumors of Gastrointestinal Tract at Jinnah Hospital, Lahore.
Ann King Edward Med Uni Jan ;7(3):235-7.

A morphological study of malignant tumours of gastrointestinal tract (GIT) was carried out at Department of Pathology, Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore for a period of three years from January 1998 to December 2000. A total of 114 cases of malignant GIT tumours were diagnosed during this period. Out of these 114 malignancies 51(44.74%) were colorectal cancers, 39(34.21%) gastric cancers, 17(14.91%) oesophageal cancers and 7(6.14%) involving the small intestine. Regarding the age incidence of patients with malignant GIT tumours , most of the patients were above the age of 30 years (87.72%) with peak incidence in the age group of 40 to 69 years (57.02%). Sex distribution shows a slight male preponderance, 60 males (52.63%) as compared to 54 women (47.37%). Considering the histological types, out of 51 cases of colorectal malignancies 48(94.12%) were adenocarcinomas whereas one case (1.47%) each shows morphology of metastatic carcinoma, basaloid carcinoma and leiomyosarcoma. In case of gastric tumours, out of 39 malignant cases, 36(92.31%) were adenocarcinomas, two (5.13%) undifferentiated carcinomas while one (2.56%) was diagnosed as squamous cell carcinoma. In case of oesophagus, out of 17 cancers, 12(70.59%) were squamous cell carcinomas and five (29.41%), adenocarcinomas. The results were tabulated and compared with similar other studies.

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