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

摘要: 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 glioblastomas, astrocytomas meningiomas. Five-year survival rates these tumors 2%, 30% 70% respectively. Histology, age at diagnosis, behavior, location important variables in estimating survival. Comparisons population-based registry suggest that malignant are well represented NCDB, but benign under-reported. Survival estimates comparable previously studies. NCDB provides recent information on distribution patterns not other large databases.