Mortality trends in primary malignant brain and central nervous system tumors vary by histopathology, age, race, and sex.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Primary malignant brain and other central nervous system tumors are rare cancers that have shown rising mortality rates in recent years. To elucidate potential factors involved in this rising death rate, we examined mortality trends for primary malignant BT in the United States stratified by histopathology groupings, age, race, and sex.

Methods

Mortality rates for demographic factors within primary malignant BT were generated using the National Center for Health Statistics' National Vital Statistics Systems data from 2004 to 2018. Additionally, histopathology-specific incidence-based mortality rates were calculated using the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End-Results (SEER) 18 data from 2004 to 2018. Joinpoint modeling was used to estimat

SUBMITTER: Thierheimer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10050015 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature