Erschienen in:
16.06.2016 | Letter to the Editor
Brain tumors incidences and a retrospective clinical analysis from a tertiary hospital in India
verfasst von:
Ravindra Pramod Deshpande, Deepak Babu, Manas Panigrahi, Y. B. V. K. Chandra Sekhar, Phanithi Prakash Babu
Erschienen in:
Journal of Neuro-Oncology
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Ausgabe 2/2016
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Excerpt
Brain tumor is a collection of abnormally grown cells in brain, contributing total 256,213 new cases reported globally in 2012. In USA, 68,470 brain tumor cases were reported in the year 2015 [
1]. Overall, males are reported to be more prone to brain tumors than females with 7.7 males and 5.4 females per 100,000 persons [
2]. World Health Organization (WHO) has classified brain tumors into diverse groups based on histopathological features and cellular origin [
3]. Among all groups, gliomas appear to be the most common primary brain tumors [
1,
3]. Despite of aggressive chemo and radio therapy, the median survival age for malignant gliomas is very low [
4]. …