Show pageBacklinksCite current pageExport to PDFBack to top This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. ====== Pediatric low-grade glioma epidemiology ====== [[Pediatric low-grade glioma]]s are the most frequent [[pediatric brain tumor]]s; with countrywide registration in [[Germany]], they constitute 40–50 % of CNS tumors below the age of 18 years. Median age at diagnosis is around 6–8 years, and around 7 % of patients are younger than 1 year. All series confirm a small male preponderance with a sex ratio of 1.1–1.3:1 ((Gnekow AK, Falkenstein F, von Hornstein S et al. Long-term follow-up of the multicenter, multidisciplinary treatment study HIT-LGG-1996 for low-grade glioma in children and adolescents of the German Speaking Society of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology. Neurooncology 2012; 14: 1265–1284 )) ((Stokland T, Liu JF, Ironside JW et al. A multivariate analysis of factors determining tumor progression in childhood low-grade glioma: A population-based cohort study (CCLG CNS9702). Neuro-oncology 2010; 12: 1257–1268)). pediatric_low-grade_glioma_epidemiology.txt Last modified: 2024/06/07 02:49by 127.0.0.1