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PMID: 9892097 Published · ppublish English Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Brain tumor survival: results from the National Cancer Data Base.

Journal of neuro-oncology ·Vol. 40 ·No. 2 ·1998-11-00 ·Pages 151-60

Surawicz TS, Davis F, Freels S, Laws ER, Menck HR

Abstract

Hospital-based data reported to the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) were available for over 60,000 patients with a primary brain tumor diagnosed from 1985-1988 and 1990-1992. The most common histologies were glioblastomas, astrocytomas and meningiomas. Five-year survival rates for these tumors were 2%, 30% and 70% respectively. Histology, age at diagnosis, behavior, and location were important variables in estimating survival. Comparisons with population-based registry data suggest that the malignant tumors are well represented in NCDB, but the benign histologies are under-reported. Survival estimates for the malignant tumors are comparable to previously reported studies. The NCDB provides recent information on brain tumor distribution and survival patterns not available in other large databases.

MeSH Terms
Adolescent Adult Age Factors Age of Onset Aged Brain Neoplasms/mortality,pathology Child Data Collection Databases, Factual Humans Middle Aged Proportional Hazards Models Registries Survival Analysis United States
Authors & Affiliations
5 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Surawicz T S
CBTRUS project, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, 60612-7260, USA. surawicz@uic.edu
Davis F
Freels S
Laws E R
Menck H R
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Article Info
Journal
Journal of neuro-oncology
Abbr.
J Neurooncol
ISSN
0167-594X
DOI
10.1023/a:1006091608586
Email
surawicz@uic.edu
Published
1998-11-00
Pages
151-60
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
8309335
Subset
IM
External Links
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