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Interesting Facts About Brain Tumors

A brain tumor is a collection of damaged cells that multiply without control within the brain. It is also called as neoplasm, growth, mass or lesion and it is classified as either primary or secondary and can be benign or malignant (1 Trusted Source
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Facts About Brain Tumor

  1. Brain tumor is the leading cause of preventable or treatable blindness in children (2 Trusted Source
    Effects of Brain Tumors on Vision in Children

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  2. The American Brain Tumor Association estimates that 700,000 new cases of primary brain tumors are diagnosed in the U.S. each year and approximately 85,000 more will be diagnosed in 2022 (3 Trusted Source
    Deep Learning for Smart Healthcare-A Survey on Brain Tumor Detection from Medical Imaging

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  3. Brain tumor is the biggest cancer killer of children and adults under 40 (4 Trusted Source
    Strategies to accelerate diagnosis of primary brain tumors at the primary-secondary care interface in children and adults

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  4. In 2022, approximately 4,170 new cases of childhood brain tumors are likely to be diagnosed (5 Trusted Source
    Brain tumor facts

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  5. 35.6% of adults survive for five years after a diagnosis of brain tumor (6 Trusted Source
    Brain and other central nervous system tumor statistics, 2021

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  6. Brain tumors reduce life expectancy by an average of 20 years, which is the highest range for any cancer.
  7. In the US, approximately 800 men and more than 600 women are diagnosed with brain tumors (7 Trusted Source
    About Brain Cancer

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  8. Adult brain tumors typically occur between the ages of 40 and 60 years, and occur slightly more frequently in men (8 Trusted Source
    Glioblastoma Study Highlights Sex Differences in Brain Cancer

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  1. An additional 98,000 - 17,0000 individuals are estimated to be diagnosed with metastatic brain tumors each year (9 Trusted Source
    Brain Metastasis

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  2. The cure rate for most brain tumors is significantly lower when compared to other types of cancer.
  3. Each year in the United States, almost 500 men and 400 women die due to brain tumor (7 Trusted Source
    About Brain Cancer

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  4. The worldwide occurrence of a malignant brain tumor is 3.7 per 100,000 males and 2.6 per 100,000 females (10 Trusted Source
    Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium

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  5. Brain tumors are the 10th leading cause of death for men and women (11 Trusted Source
    Brain Tumor Detection and Classification Using Cycle Generative Adversarial Networks

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  6. In United States, for every 100,000 people approximately 221 are following the diagnosis of a brain tumor and each year more than 200,000 people are diagnosed with a primary or secondary brain tumor.
  7. It is estimated that approximately 18,000 people will die from brain tumors by 2021 (12 Trusted Source
    Brain and other central nervous system tumor statistics, 2021

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  8. Malignant brain tumor survival rates are higher for adults diagnosed at a younger age.
  9. The longest-surviving brain tumor survivor lived for more than 20 years after being diagnosed (13 Trusted Source
    A case of more than 20 years survival with glioblastoma, and development of cavernous angioma as a delayed complication of radiotherapy

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  10. According to estimations, there would be 609,820 cancer deaths and 1,958,310 new cancer cases in the US in 2023 (14 Trusted Source
    Cancer statistics, 2023

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Last Updated on Mar 03, 2023
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