MALIGNANT OVARIAN TUMOR

This study was conducted to find out the incidence of malignant ovarian tumor in the total histology specimen over one year period (from January 1998 - December 1998). Total of 3095 specimen were received in the histology section of the Pathology Department, Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar. 155 out of these were ovarian specimen. 36 (39.9%) of the ovarian specimen were malignant i.e. 1.2 % of the total 3095. When this figure was compared with the statistics from 1RNUM (Institute of Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine) they had received 86 patients during the period for the treatment of malignant ovarian tumor 17.2% of the total female admission.