Publication details
Vícečetné nádory nervového systému a další primární novotvary
| Title in English | Multiple cancers of nervous system and other primary neoplasms |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Onkologie |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Other medical specializations |
| Keywords | cancers of nervous system; incidence; prevalence; multiple cancers; primary and subsequent neoplasms |
| Description | The number of malignant neoplasms of central nervous system (MN CNS), based in the Czech Cancer Registry, reached 25,718 diseases, of which there were 13,851 (53.9 %) of males and 11,867 (46.1 %) of females in 1959–2007, presented 406 cases per 100,000 males and 380 per 100,000 females in 2007. Their prevalence increased from 1,169 to 2,565 survived cases between 1989–2005, with 3,430 cases expected in 2015. A total of 962 registered multiple MN CNS there were 150 primary diseases in males and 162 in females, 327 subsequent MN CNS in males and 323 in females, i. e. 5.1 % in males and 6.2 % in females of all newly registered MN CNS in period 1976–2005. In this period the number of primary cases increased twice, of subsequent ones nearly 30 times during five periods. The primary and subsequent MN CNS prevailed in the age group till 49 years in females over males, in the age group 50–69 years in males over females. 47 % of all multiple MN CNS were distributed in the four regions. |
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