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Meta-Analysis
. 2023 Jan 20;28(1):39.
doi: 10.1186/s40001-023-01011-y.

The global prevalence of primary central nervous system tumors: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Nader Salari  1 , Hooman Ghasemi  2 , Reza Fatahian  3 , Kamran Mansouri  4 , Sadat Dokaneheifard  5 , Mohammad Hossain Shiri  2 , Mahvan Hemmati  2 , Masoud Mohammadi  6
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Meta-Analysis

The global prevalence of primary central nervous system tumors: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Nader Salari et al. Eur J Med Res. .

Abstract

Background: Primary central nervous system (CNS) tumors are a heterogeneous group of neoplasms, including benign and malignant tumors. Since there are many heterogeneities in the prevalence reported in previous studies on this type of tumor, this study was performed to determine the overall prevalence of different primary CNS tumors.

Method: The study was conducted as a systematic review and meta-analysis by searching international databases, including PubMed, Scopus, Science Direct, Web of science, and the Google Scholar search engine until August 2020. After transferring the studies to information management software (EndNote) and eliminating duplicate studies, the remaining studies were reviewed based on inclusion and exclusion criteria according to three stages of primary and secondary evaluation and qualitative evaluation. Comprehensive Meta-Analysis software, Begg, Mazumdar, and I2 tests were used for data analysis, publication bias analysis, and heterogeneity analysis, respectively.

Results: After performing the systematic review steps, 80 studies were included for final analysis. Based on 8 studies, the prevalence of brain tumors was 70.9%. Also, studies on 7 other studies showed that the prevalence of spinal tumors was 12.2%. A review of 14 studies showed that the prevalence of neuroepithelial tumors was 34.7%. The analysis of 27 studies reported a prevalence of glioma tumors of 42.8%. Analyses performed on other studies showed that the prevalence of pituitary adenomas was 12.2%, embryonal tumors 3.1%, ependymal tumors 3.2%, meningiomas 24.1%, glial tumors 0.8%, astrocytic 20.3%, oligodendroglial 3.9%, glioblastoma 17.7%, schwannoma 6.7%, medulloblastoma 7.7% and Polycystic astrocytomas 3.8%.

Conclusion: As a result, it can be stated that brain tumors are the most common type of primary CNS tumors. It was also observed that tumors involving neuroepithelial cells are more common in patients than other types of tumors.

Keywords: Brain tumor; CNS tumors; Prevalence; Systematic review.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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