Between October 1978 and December 1981, 1000 consecutive patients with cancer referred to the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre were seen and treated by one oncologist. There were 581 men and 419 women with a median age of 50 years. Two hundred and fifty-three (25 percent) patients had gastrointestinal malignancies, 231 (23 percent) malignant lymphoma, 184 (18 percent) head and neck cancer, 105 (11 percent) sarcomas, 104 (10 percent) gynecologic malignancies, and 52 (5 percent) breast cancer. The commonest tumors among male patients were gastrointestinal cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and head and neck cancer, while gynecologic malignancies, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and gastrointestinal neoplasms were more common in females. The incidence is somewhat different from Western countries.

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