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Prevalence estimates for primary brain tumors in China: a multi-center cross-sectional study.

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2011

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Tao Jiang, Genfu Tang, Yi Lin, Xiaoxia Peng, Zhang Xiao, Xiuwei Zhai, Xiang Peng, Jin-qing Yang, Hong‐Er Huang, Naifeng Wu,
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Abstract

Age standardized prevalence of PBT is 22.52 per 100,000 (95%CI, 13.22 to 31.82) for all populations, 17.64 per 100,000 (95%CI, 9.41 to 25.87) for men, and 27.94 per 100,000 (95%CI, 17.58 to 38.30) for women. Age standardization to China's 2010 population yielded an estimated population of 304 954 cases with PBT. Our prevalence estimates provide a conservative basis on which to plan health care services and to develop programmatic strategies for surviving. In the future, it would be helpful to have long-term observed survival rates that would make the assumptions and the resulting imprecision in the current estimates unnecessary.