Editing Brain tumor (section)

===United States===
In the United States in 2015, approximately 166,039 people were living with brain or other central nervous system tumors. Over 2018, it was projected that there would be 23,880 new cases of brain tumors and 16,830 deaths in 2018 as a result,<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/brain.html|title=Cancer Stat Facts: Brain and Other Nervous System Cancer|date=31 March 2019|website=National Cancer Institute}}</ref> accounting for 1.4 percent of all cancers and 2.8 percent of all cancer deaths.<ref name=r2>{{cite web |publisher=American Cancer Society |url=http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/BrainCNSTumorsinAdults/DetailedGuide/brain-and-spinal-cord-tumors-in-adults-key-statistics |title=What are the key statistics about brain and spinal cord tumors? |date=1 May 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702042112/http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/BrainCNSTumorsinAdults/DetailedGuide/brain-and-spinal-cord-tumors-in-adults-key-statistics |archive-date=2 July 2012}}</ref> Median age of diagnosis was 58 years old, while median age of death was 65. Diagnosis was slightly more common in males, at approximately 7.5 cases per 100 000 people, while females saw 2 fewer at 5.4. Deaths as a result of brain cancer were 5.3 per 100 000 for males, and 3.6 per 100 000 for females, making brain cancer the 10th leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Overall lifetime risk of developing brain cancer is approximated at 0.6 percent for men and women.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cbtrus.org/factsheet/factsheet.html|title=2018 CBTRUS Fact Sheet|date=31 March 2019|website=Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States|access-date=14 February 2019|archive-date=14 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214061511/http://www.cbtrus.org/factsheet/factsheet.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>