Racial differences in the incidence of gliomas: A retrospective study from Memphis, Tennessee

British Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 562-566

  Robertson, J T ^a,b   Gunter, B C ^c   Somes, G W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Glioma; Incidence; Race

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS;

EID: 0036935581     PISSN: 02688697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02688690209168361     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Clegg LX, Li FP, Hankey BF, Chu K, Edwards BK. Cancer survival among US whites and minorities: a SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results) program population-based study: Arch Intern Med 2002 1985-93;162(17).
2. Davis FG, Freels S, Grutsch J, Barlas S, Brem S. Survival rates in patients with primary malignant brain tumors stratified by patient age and tumor histological type; an analysis based on Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) data, 1973-1991.
3. Fan KJ, Kov J, Earle KM. The ethnic distribution of primary central nervous system tumors: AFIP 1958 to 1970. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 1977;36:41-9.
4. Fan KJ, Pezeshkpour CH. Ethnic Distribution of Primary Central Nervous System Tumors in Washington DC, 1971 to 1985. J Nat Med Ass 1992; 84:858-63.
5. Froman C, Lipschitz R. Demography of tumors of the central nervous system among the Bantu (African) population of the Transvaal, South Africa. J Neurosurg 1979;32:660-5.
6. Heshmat MY, Kovi J, Simpson C, Kennedy J, Fan KJ. Neoplasma of the central nervous system: Incidence and population selectivity in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area. Cancer 1976;38:2135-42.
7. McLendon RE, Ronbinson JS, Chambers DB, Grufferman, Burger PC. The glioblastoma multiforme in Georgia, 1977-1981. Cancer 1997;56:894-7.
8. Preston-Martin S. Descriptive epidemiology of primary tumors of the brain, central nerves and crainial menginges in Los Angeles County. Neuroepidemiology 1989;8:283-95.
9. Walker MD, et al. (Brain Tumor Study Group). Randomized comparisons of radiotherapy and nitrosoureas for the treatment of malignant glioma after surgery: N Engl J Med 1980;303(23):1323-9.
10. Walker, MD, Hunt, AE et al., Evaluation of BCNU and/or radiotherapy in the treatment of anaplastic gliomas. J Neurosurg 1976;60:665-98.