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Current Status of Treatment and Its Complications

Arch Neurol. 1975;32(12):781-784.

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Cancer is the nation's second leading cause of death.¹ There will be 365,000 deaths caused by cancer in the United States in 1975, approximately half the number of deaths caused by heart disease and not quite 1.5 times the number of deaths caused by stroke, the first and third leading causes respectively. There will be 665,000 new cases of cancer in the United States this year. In comparison with that total, the number of primary tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) seems small (10,700 new cases and 8,500 deaths in 1975). Of these CNS tumors, we estimate from other data that there will be approximately 5,000 new malignant gliomas this year and approximately the same number of deaths. However, far more numerous than gliomas are CNS metastases from systemic cancer. Approximately 18% of patients who die of cancer (67,000) have intracranial metastases at the time of autopsy² . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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