Journal article
Global, regional, and national burden of brain and other CNS cancer, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Brain and CNS cancers (collectively referred to as CNS cancers) are a source of mortality and morbidity for which diagnosis and treatment require extensive resource allocation and sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic technology. Previous epidemiological studies are limited to specific geographical regions or time periods, making them difficult to compare on a global scale. In this analysis, we aimed to provide a comparable and …
Authors
Collaborators GBAOCC; Patel AP; Fisher JL; Nichols E; Abd-Allah F; Abdela J; Abdelalim A; Abraha HN; Agius D; Alahdab F
Journal
The Lancet Neurology, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 376–393
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
April 2019
DOI
10.1016/s1474-4422(18)30468-x
ISSN
1474-4422