[Table/Fig-7]:

Comparison of data on brain tumours in adults with other recent studies [6,9-12].

Variables	Present study	Jaiswal J et al., [6]	Krishnatreya M et al., [9]*	Ghanghoria S et al., [10]	Jazayeri SB et al., [11]	Chen L et al., [12]
Type of study	Hospital based study	Hospital based study	Hospital based study	Hospital based study	National cancer registry based study	Hospital based study
Number of cases	510	4295	231	65	10,802	34,640
M:F ratio	0.9:1	1.3:1	2.3:1	1: 0.86	1.48:1	0.9:1
Most common age group	40-60 years	30-40 years	20-60 years	30-50 years	30-60 years	30-60 years
Most common site	Frontal-80 (15.5%)	NA	Frontal- 103 (44.6%)	NA	NA	NA
Histological diagnosis	Meningioma (34.7%), Astrocytic tumours,(25.1%)	Meningiomas (23.2%), Glioblastomas (15.5%),Nerve sheath tumours (12.7%)	Diffuse astrocytoma (37.2%), Glioblastoma (21.2%)	Meningioma (41.54%), Astrocytoma (24.61%)	Meningioma (27.8%), Astrocytoma (15.2%), Glioblastoma (13.8%)	Meningioma (33.6%), Schwannoma (14.2%), Astrocytic tumours (11.4%)

^*Krishnatreya M et al.,(2014) excluded tumours arising from the meninges