Statistical Table 5

 

Primary Brain and Central Nervous System
Tumor Incidence Ratesa by Age at Diagnosis
CBTRUS 1990-1994b
HISTOLOGY

Age at Diagnosis
0-19 20-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65-74 75-84 85+
Tumors of neuroepithelial tissue

Diffuse astrocytoma (protoplasmic, fibrillary)
0.08 0.10 0.18 0.17 0.31 0.39 0.35 0.18

Anaplastic astrocytoma
0.11 0.43 0.56 0.72 1.02 1.37 1.03 0.41

Glioblastoma
0.15 0.42 1.12 3.87 8.47 12.22 10.83 4.95

Pilocytic astrocytoma
0.56 0.13 0.10 0.07 0.03 0.03 0.06 0.00

Unique astrocytoma variants
0.06 0.05 0.05 0.06 0.06 0.08 0.06 0.05

Oligodendroglioma
0.10 0.39 0.56 0.38 0.48 0.36 0.16 0.05

Anaplastic oligodendroglioma
0.01 0.06 0.08 0.17 0.12 0.10 0.07 0.00

Ependymoma/
anaplastic ependymoma
0.24 0.17 0.33 0.35 0.27 0.22 0.28 0.23

Ependymoma variants
0.03 0.05 0.04 0.08 0.04 0.03 0.04 0.00

Mixed glioma
0.06 0.14 0.17 0.22 0.21 0.07 0.09 0.00

Astrocytoma, NOS
0.51 0.73 0.87 1.02 1.58 2.50 2.72 1.09

Glioma, malignant, NOS
0.29 0.13 0.17 0.28 0.41 0.84 1.19 1.00

Embryonal/primitive/
medulloblastoma
0.56 0.15 0.09 0.08 0.01 0.02 0.01 0.00
Tumors of Cranial and
Spinal Nerves

Nerve sheath, benign and malignant
0.06 0.45 .96 1.75 1.91 1.86 1.19 0.68
Tumors of the Meninges

Meningioma
0.08 0.59 1.83 4.26 6.65 11.05 13.72 13.32

Hemangioblastoma
0.01 0.12 0.15 0.17 0.28 0.13 0.19 0.00
Lymphomas and Hemopoetic Neoplasms

Lymphoma
0.02 0.37 0.63 0.46 0.97 1.46 1.57 0.68
Germ Cell Tumors

Germ cell
0.16 0.07 0.04 0.03 0.04 0.03 0.01 0.00
Tumors of the Sellar Region

Pituitary
0.13 0.86 1.21 1.31 1.96 2.24 2.24 0.77

Craniopharyngioma
0.13 0.06 0.09 0.10 0.13 0.16 0.19 0.05
TOTAL 3.79 5.84 9.63 16.08 25.79 36.35 38.91 27.14
a Rates are per 100,000 person-years.
b Includes data from eleven of the twelve regions listed in Table 2; Virginia is excluded.
c Refers to all brain tumors including histologies not presented in this table.
Abbreviations used: CBTRUS, Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States; NOS, not otherwise specified.

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