Underreporting of Vestibular Schwannoma Incidence Within National Brain Tumor and Cancer Registries in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Reports using large brain tumor and cancer registries suggest that the incidence of vestibular schwannoma is considerably lower in the United States compared with other countries. The current study compares the incidence and disease characteristics of vestibular schwannoma within a large tertiary referral center's brain tumor and cancer registry using nationally mandated reporting protocols to disease incidence in the same population using an externally validated population-based consortium.

Study design

Population-based study spanning 1,945,007 person-years.

Setting

Large tertiary referral center.

Patients

Adults with sporadic vestibular schwannoma.

Main outcome measure

Disease incidence rates from 2004 to 2016.

Results

From 2004 to 201

SUBMITTER: Marinelli JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8192892 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature