Are pediatric brain tumors on the rise in the USA? Significant incidence and survival findings from the SEER database analysis

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 147-154

  Patel, Swetal ^a   Bhatnagar, Amit ^a   Wear, Christopher ^a   Osiro, Stephen ^a,b   Gabriel, Abigail ^a   Kimball, David ^a   John, Alana ^a,c   Fields, Paul J ^d   Tubbs, R Shane ^e   Loukas, Marios ^a,f  

^a ST GEORGE S UNIVERSITY   (Grenada)

^b WOODHULL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation   (Grenada)

^e CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Brain tumors; Incidence; Pediatric; SEER; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; DATA BASE; EPENDYMOMA; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR; PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY BRAIN TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899060284     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: 14330350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-013-2307-1     Document Type: Article

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