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Brain Cancer
Brain tumors do not discriminate. Primary brain tumors – those that begin in the brain and tend to stay in the brain – occur in people of all ages, but they are statistically more frequent in children and older adults. Metastatic brain tumors – those that begin as a cancer elsewhere in the body and spread to the brain – are more common in adults than children.
By the Numbers: Critical Brain Tumor Statistics
- Nearly 90,000 new cases of primary brain tumors are expected to be diagnosed this year. Approximately one-third or 32% of brain and CNS tumors are malignant.
- This includes more than 25,000 primary malignant and 53,000 non-malignant brain tumors.
- There are approximately 700,000 people in the U.S. living with a primary brain and central nervous system tumor.
- Survival after diagnosis with a primary brain tumor varies significantly by age, histology, molecular markers and tumor behavior.
- There are more than 150 histologically or molecularly distinct types of primary brain and central nervous system tumors.
Source of information: Brain Cancer Tumor Association – www.abta.org.