Surgical malignancies in a mining town on the copper belt in Zambia
Surgical Malignancies are not a common cause of admission to the mine hospital in Chingola – Zambia, however they do occur; they formed 0.4% of the admissions during the study. These were due to malignant disease affecting people of all ages. In this study, the youngest was two years old and the oldest was 75. The mean age was 40.8 years. The affected population was relatively young. Nearly all the patients were from the Bantu ethnic grouping (97.6%). Both females and males were equally affected (M:F 1:1).