Sensitivity of the Scottish Cancer Registry for indentifying patients with incident primary intracranial tumours

Tumour typeCases identified in registryCases in incidence studySensitivity of
registry (%)
(95% CI)
Neuroepithelial10212284  (77–90)
 High grade1-150 829487 (79–93)
 Low grade1-151 202871 (51–89)
Meningeal104522 (11–37)
 Meningioma84319 (8–33)
 Haemangioblastoma22100 (16–100)
Sellar113829 (15–46)
 Pituitary93526 (12–43)
 Craniopharyngioma2367 (9–99)
Cranial nerve0100 (0–31)
Primary CNS lymphoma0100 (0–31)
Germ cell11100
Cystic lesion020
All primary tumours12422854 (48–61)

  • ↵1-150 Glioblastoma, anaplastic astrocytoma, anaplastic oligodendroglioma, medulloblastoma, and pineocytoma.

  • ↵1-151 Low grade astrocytoma, mixed glioma, oligodendroglioma, and ependymoma.