Statistical Table 2000-4

 

Primary Brain and Central Nervous System Tumor Incidence Ratesa by Histology and Race,
CBTRUS 1990-1994
Age-Adjusted Using the Year 2000 United States Standard Population
HISTOLOGY WHITE BLACK
n rate n rate
Tumors of neuroepithelial tissue  

Diffuse astrocytoma (protoplasmic, fibrillary)
261 0.18 6 0.05

Anaplastic astrocytoma
826 0.55 27 0.22

Glioblastoma
4,486 3.05 120 1.24

Pilocytic astrocytoma
328 0.22 33 0.21

Unique astrocytoma variants
86 0.06 6 0.04

Oligodendroglioma
504 0.34 19 0.18

Anaplastic oligodendroglioma
114 0.08 0 0.00

Ependymoma /anaplastic ependymoma
371 0.25 20 0.14

Ependymoma variants
69 0.05 1 0.01

Mixed glioma
197 0.13 5 0.04

Astrocytoma, NOS
1,586 1.06 49 0.39

Glioma malignant, NOS
488 0.33 44 0.33

Choroid plexus
56 0.04 5 0.03

Neuroepithelial
33 0.02 1 0.01

Benign and malignant neuronal/glial, neuronal and mixed
194 0.13 10 0.06

Pineal parenchymal
35 0.02 1 0.01

Embryonal/primitive/medulloblastoma
336 0.22 25 0.14
Tumors of cranial and spinal nerves  

Nerve sheath, benign and malignant
1,240 0.86 26 0.25
Tumors of the meninges  

Meningioma
4,559 3.11 267 2.87

Other mesenchymal, benign and malignant
68 0.05 4 0.04

Hemangioblastoma
182 0.12 6 0.05
Lymphomas and hemopoietic neoplasms  

Lymphoma
744 0.49 72 0.60
Germ cell tumors and cysts  

Germ cell tumors, cysts and heterotopias
114 0.08 5 0.03
Tumors of the sellar region  

Pituitary
1,480 0.99 115 1.08

Craniopharyngioma
163 0.11 12 0.09
Local extensions from regional tumors  

Chordoma/chondrosarcoma
42 0.03 1 0.01
Unclassified tumors  

Hemangioma
54 0.04 1 0.01

Neoplasm, unspecified
527 0.36 39 0.41

All Other
5 0.00 2 0.02
TOTAL 19,148 12.96 922 8.54
aRates are per 100,000 person-years and are age adjusted using the Year 2000 United States standard population. These data cannot be compared to previously published results as a different standard population was used.

bNot estimable.


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