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In 1962 KURLAND and his associates (1) compiled the available mortality data on cerebral neoplasms for the United States and Canada as derived from the International List of Diseases and Causes of Death (2). Their study revealed a remarkably even geographic distribution for all classes of intracranial tumors in the two countries. The mortality rates ranged from 3 to 5 per 100,000 population. If this mortality estimate was correct in 1962 and if it is still valid in 1974, one can expect between 6,300 and 10,500 deaths from intracranial neoplastic disease this year in this country based on a population of two hundred and ten million.
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Zimmerman, H.M. (1975). The Significance of Experimental Gliomas for Human Disease. In: Hekmatpanah, J. (eds) Gliomas. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 51. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80916-3_3
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