Table 6 Incidence of intracranial and intraspinal tumours among children aged 0–14 years in Great Britain (NRCT), France [17], the United States [18] and Australia [27]. Age-standardised rates (world standard population) per million; rates for United States calculated using case numbers and denominators from Table 8 and Appendix B respectively of reference 18

IIIa

Ependymoma & choroid plexus tumours

4.1

3.8

4.3

3.4

IIIa.1

Ependymoma

2.9

2.6

3.0

–

IIIa.2

Choroid plexus tumours

1.2

1.2

1.3

–

IIIb

Astrocytoma

16.4

13.7

17.3

16.2

IIIc

Embryonal tumours

7.1

7.7

8.4

7.2

IIIc.1

Medulloblastoma

5.1

5.4

–

–

IIIc.2

Embryonal CNS tumour NOS

1.1

1.1

–

–

IIIc.4

ATRT

0.9

1.1

–

–

IIId

Other gliomas

3.7

4.9

6.1

4.2

IIId.1

Oligodendroglioma

0.3

1.6

0.5

–

IIIe

Other specified tumours

5.3

6.0

8.2

3.9

IIIe.1

Pituitary adenoma

0.5

0.2

1.7

–

IIIe.2

Craniopharyngioma

1.7

1.8

2.0

–

IIIe.3

Pineal parenchymal tumours

0.5

0.3

0.4

–

IIIe.4

Mixed glial-neuronal tumours

2.1

3.2

3.2

–

IIIe.5

Meningioma

0.4

0.6

0.8

–

IIIf

Unspecified tumours

1.9

0.6

1.7

0.9

Xa

Germ cell tumours

1.5

2.1

1.8

1.8

Total

40.1

38.8

47.0

37.5