Abstract
The aim of this study was to determine the causes of mortality from different malignancies in the Asir region of Saudi Arabia. The Asir region is an area of about 80,000 km 2 , with a population of about 1.2 million people. 1 Asir Central Hospital is the main referral hospital, and serves as the teaching hospital of the medical school in the region. All complicated and terminal cases from the 17 hospitals in the region are routinely referred to this hospital. As such, deaths from malignant conditions at the hospital provide a fair reflection of such deaths in this area. We decided, therefore, to study the causes of death from malignant conditions in a four-year period so as to identify the main malignant killers in the region.
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