RT Book, Section A1 Weathers, Shiao-Pei A1 O’Brien, Barbara A1 Groot, John de A1 Mahajan, Commentary: Anita A1 Prabhu, Commentary: Sujit S. A2 Kantarjian, Hagop M. A2 Wolff, Robert A. SR Print(0) ID 1126744985 T1 Tumors of the Central Nervous System T2 The MD Anderson Manual of Medical Oncology, 3e YR 2016 FD 2016 PB McGraw-Hill Medical PP New York, NY SN 9780071847940 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1126744985 RD 2024/03/29 AB Brain tumors are a heterogeneous group of lesions that range from benign, slow-growing tumors found only incidentally on autopsy, to malignant, rapidly growing tumors that cause death within months. The most common intracranial tumors are brain metastases from systemic cancer, estimated at 200,000 new cases per year in the United States, based on a 10% to 15% incidence (1). In comparison, the incidence of primary brain and spinal cord tumors for 2014 was estimated at 23,380 new cases (American Cancer Society 2014 Facts and Figures [http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@research/documents/webcontent/acspc-042151.pdf (or, cancer.org]).