Statistical Table 2000-6

 

Childhood Primary Brain and Central Nervous System Tumor Incidence Rates (Ages 0-19) by Age at Diagnosis
CBTRUS 1990-1994
HISTOLOGY AGE AT DIAGNOSIS
0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19
n rate n rate n rate n rate
Tumors of neuroepithelial tissue  

Anaplastic astrocytoma
7 0.06 12 0.10 18 0.15 15 0.13

Glioblastoma
13 0.10 10 0.08 25 0.21 22 0.19

Piloctytic astrocytoma
66 0.52 83 0.68 68 0.57 51 0.45

Ependymoma/anaplastic ependymoma
64 0.51 23 0.19 18 0.15 9 0.08

Astrocytoma, NOS
73 0.58 61 0.50 76 0.64 37 0.32

Glioma malignant, NOS
55 0.43 49 0.40 25 0.21 11 0.10

Benign and malignant neuronal/glial, neuronal and mixed
37 0.29 18 0.15 27 0.23 12 0.11

Embryonal/primitive/medulloblastoma
108 0.85 96 0.78 38 0.32 28 0.25
Germ cell tumors  

Germ cell

12 0.09 12 0.10 27 0.23 24 0.21
Tumors of the sellar region  

Craniopharyngioma
14 0.11 23 0.19 19 0.16 8 0.07
TOTALa 557 4.40 465 3.80 443 3.70 366 3.21
a Refers to all childhood brain tumors, including histologies not presented in this table.

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