Table 3.
Number of Childhood (Ages 0-19) Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors by Major Histology Groupings, Histology, Gender, Race and Hispanic Ethnicity, CBTRUS Statistical Report: NPCR and SEER, 2005–2009
| Total | Gender |
Race |
Hispanic Ethnicity† |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Histology | Male | Female | White | Black | AIAN | API | Hispanic | Non-Hispanic | |
| Tumors of Neuroepithelial Tissue | 14,152 | 7,631 | 6,521 | 11,484 | 1,717 | 114 | 399 | 2,449 | 11,703 |
| Pilocytic astrocytoma | 3,220 | 1,668 | 1,552 | 2,654 | 367 | 28 | 74 | 502 | 2,718 |
| Diffuse astrocytoma | 1,082 | 577 | 505 | 869 | 136 | – | 31 | 178 | 904 |
| Anaplastic astrocytoma | 320 | 187 | 133 | 258 | 40 | – | – | 61 | 259 |
| Unique astrocytoma variants | 430 | 224 | 206 | 328 | 74 | – | – | 73 | 357 |
| Glioblastoma | 562 | 324 | 238 | 425 | 101 | – | 23 | 105 | 457 |
| Oligodendroglioma | 233 | 131 | 102 | 187 | 38 | – | – | 34 | 199 |
| Anaplastic oligodendroglioma | 49 | 27 | 22 | 40 | – | – | – | – | 40 |
| Oligoastrocytic tumors | 137 | 63 | 74 | 117 | – | – | – | 18 | 119 |
| Ependymal tumors | 1,112 | 641 | 471 | 899 | 126 | 16 | 48 | 228 | 884 |
| Glioma malignant, NOS | 2,345 | 1,148 | 1,197 | 1,885 | 273 | – | 76 | 397 | 1,948 |
| Choroid plexus tumors | 394 | 221 | 173 | 339 | 26 | – | – | 86 | 308 |
| Other neuroepithelial tumors | 30 | – | 24 | 23 | – | – | – | – | 29 |
| Neuronal and mixed neuronal-glial tumors | 1,456 | 805 | 651 | 1,203 | 163 | – | 27 | 204 | 1,252 |
| Tumors of the pineal region | 165 | 80 | 85 | 103 | 51 | – | – | 34 | 131 |
| Embryonal tumors | 2,617 | 1,529 | 1,088 | 2,154 | 294 | 21 | 84 | 519 | 2,098 |
| Tumors of Cranial and Spinal Nerves | 1,100 | 558 | 542 | 884 | 134 | – | 27 | 193 | 907 |
| Nerve sheath tumors | 1,100 | 558 | 542 | 884 | 134 | – | 27 | 193 | 907 |
| Other tumors of cranial and spinal nerves | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Tumors of Meninges | 857 | 409 | 448 | 687 | 107 | – | 23 | 144 | 713 |
| Meningioma | 548 | 263 | 285 | 431 | 74 | – | 17 | 71 | 477 |
| Mesenchymal tumors | 150 | 61 | 89 | 129 | – | – | – | 28 | 122 |
| Primary melanocytic lesions | 19 | – | – | 16 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Other neoplasms related to the meninges | 140 | 75 | 65 | 111 | 18 | – | – | 39 | 101 |
| Lymphomas and Hemopoietic Neoplasms | 90 | 56 | 34 | 67 | – | – | – | 27 | 63 |
| Lymphoma | 59 | 38 | 21 | 40 | – | – | – | 18 | 41 |
| Other hemopoietic neoplasms | 31 | 18 | – | 27 | – | – | – | – | 22 |
| Germ Cell Tumors and Cysts | 823 | 581 | 242 | 640 | 88 | – | 63 | 186 | 637 |
| Germ cell tumors, cysts and heterotopias | 823 | 581 | 242 | 640 | 88 | – | 63 | 186 | 637 |
| Tumors of Sellar Region | 2,660 | 931 | 1,729 | 2,028 | 377 | 45 | 72 | 614 | 2,046 |
| Tumors of the pituitary | 1,894 | 542 | 1,352 | 1,441 | 262 | 35 | 53 | 436 | 1,458 |
| Craniopharyngioma | 766 | 389 | 377 | 587 | 115 | – | 19 | 178 | 588 |
| Unclassified Tumors | 1,027 | 543 | 484 | 834 | 106 | – | 23 | 243 | 784 |
| Hemangioma | 293 | 158 | 135 | 249 | 23 | – | – | 68 | 225 |
| Neoplasm, unspecified | 727 | 381 | 346 | 579 | 83 | – | – | 174 | 553 |
| All other | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Total | 20,709 | 10,709 | 10,000 | 16,624 | 2,542 | 199 | 612 | 3,856 | 16,853 |
- Counts are not presented when fewer than 16 cases were reported for the specific histology category. The suppressed cases are included in the counts for totals. Counts for other race, unspecified and unknown race are included in the counts for totals.
†Hispanic ethnicity is not mutually exclusive of race; Classified using the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries Hispanic Identification Algorithm, version 2 (NHIA v2).
Abbreviations: CBTRUS, Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States; NPCR, CDC's National Program of Cancer Registries; SEER, NCI's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results program; AIAN, American Indian/Alaskan Native; API, Asian Pacific Islander.