Epidemiological Profiling and Trends of Primary Intracranial Tumors: A Hospital-Based Brain Tumor Registry from a Tertiary Care Center

• Main Authors: Mukta Meel, Nikita Choudhary, Mukesh Kumar, Kusum Mathur
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2021-01-01
• Series: Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice
• Subjects: epidemiology; hospital-based cancer registry; primary intracranial tumors
• Online Access: http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0040-1721622

Background and Objectives Hospital-based cancer registry is an essential tool for augmentation of the standard of care, administration motive, and resource for population-based cancer registries. Here, we presented hospital-based brain tumor registry (HBBTR) to outline a comprehensive epidemiological data, both clinical and histopathological, as well as trends of central nervous system tumors. In addition, we compare this data with national brain tumor data as well as an international brain tumor registry. Materials and Methods For the generation of this 7-year HBBTR data of all primary intracranial tumors operated, diagnosed, and registered at the Department of Pathology, Sawai ManSingh, between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2019, was collected, analyzed, and compared with Tata Memorial Hospital, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, and Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States. Results A total of 3,526 patients were of primary intracranial tumors. Out of which, male patients were 1,982 (56.2%), while 1,544 (43.8%) were female patients. Maximum proportion of tumors was in fifth decade. Overall, pediatric and adult patients constituted of 15.5 and 84.5% of the cases, respectively. Among all primary intracranial tumors, meningiomas (20%) were most common followed by glioblastoma multiformat (18%) and least common were germ cell tumors (0.1%) followed by pineal tumors (0.3%). In pediatric cohort astrocytic tumors (30.1%) are most common followed by embryonal tumors (20.8%), while in adults meningiomas (23.1%) were most common followed by glioblastomas (20.3%). Our registry showed similar trends of tumors with national data as compared with international data in median age of presentation. Conclusion This HBBTRs provide prevalence of primary intracranial tumors at a tertiary care center and could be a part of population-based registry.