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Each year over 200,000 patients are newly diagnosed with brain tumors in the United States.
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Roughly 17,000 of these tumors are “benign,” meaning that the tumor mass is not cancerous, although threat to life and/or brain function may exist. Benign tumors are often treatable.
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The rest – over 187,000 – are malignant (cancerous) and are usually capable of causing or contributing to patient death and/or significant impairment.
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The number of newly diagnosed malignant brain tumors approaches 400,000 per year when including Europe and Canada.
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Brain Cancer
