Omid Nejati - Bahman Hospital- Medical And Pathological Laboratory - Islamic Azad University Of Mashhad - Iran
Bahieh ZarifZakerian - Assistant Professor Of Pathology, Facultyl Of Medicine - Islamic Azad University Of Mashhad- Iran

In a recent descriptive study of patients admitted to 22 Bahman hospital , the 1770 of people hadundergone surgery for different diagnoses, Their samples were sent to laboratory for pathologicalevaluation. The 116 cases had cancer (a prevalence of 6.55% in the 1770 cases) Types of diagnosedcancers in order of frequency include ; skin cancer 29 cases ( prevalence rate of 25%), bladdercancer 19 cases ( prevalence rate of 16.4%), breast cancer 16 cases (prevalence rate of 14%), prostatecancer 11 cases ( prevalence rate of 9.5%), gastrointestinal tract cancer (esophagus, sigmoid,gallbladder, stomach, colon, rectum) 9 cases (prevalence rate of 7.7%), kidney cancer(nephroblastoma, renal pelvis carcinoma, Wilm s tumor) 7 cases (prevalence rate of 6%), lymphnode cancer 7 cases (prevalence rate of 6 %), Uterus cancer 5 cases (prevalence rate of 4.3%), thyroidcancer 5 cases ( prevalence rate of 4.3%),lung cancer 5 case( prevalence rate of 4.3%), testis cancer 3cases (prevalence rate of 2.5 %). In this study of 116 cancer cases were 67 men (58%) and 49 women(42%). The most common organs involved by cancers were skin, bladder, breast and prostate.