Statistical Table 2000-5

 

Childhood Primary Brain and Central Nervous System Tumor Incidence Ratesa by Gender (Ages 0-19)
CBTRUS 1990-1994
Age-Adjusted Using the Year 2000 United States Standard Population
HISTOLOGY MALE FEMALE TOTAL
n rate n rate n rate
Tumors of neuroepithelial tissue  

Anaplastic astrocytoma
32 0.13 20 0.09 52 0.11

Glioblastoma
35 0.14 35 0.15 70 0.15

Piloctytic astrocytoma
140 0.57 128 0.54 268 0.55

Ependymoma/anaplastic ependymoma
67 0.26 47 0.19 114 0.23

Astrocytoma, NOS
133 0.53 114 0.48 247 0.51

Glioma malignant, NOS
66 0.26 74 0.31 140 0.28

Benign and malignant neuronal/glial, neuronal and mixed
59 0.23 35 0.15 94 0.19

Embryonal/primitive/medulloblastoma
165 0.66 105 0.43 270 0.55
Germ cell tumors  

Germ cell

55 0.23 20 0.08 75 0.16
Tumors of the sellar region  

Craniopharyngioma
32 0.13 32 0.14 64 0.13
TOTALb 992 3.99 839 3.54 1,831 3.77
a Rates are per 100,000 person-years and 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.
bRefers to all childhood brain tumors, including histologies not presented in this table.

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