title: Is the incidence of meningiomas underestimated? A regional survey.
abstract: We assessed the undercount of meningiomas in a population-based cancer registry. A comprehensive material was formed by compiling hospital sources with the Finnish Cancer Registry database. The completeness of each source ranged 62-69%. The corrected age-standardised meningioma incidence was 2.9/100,000 for men and 13.0/100,000 for women, a third higher than the cancer registry figures.
authors.affiliation: Tampere School of Public Health, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland. suvi.larjavaara@uta.fi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Larjavaara
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Haapasalo
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sankila
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Helén
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Auvinen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016543:Central Nervous System Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland / Q000453:epidemiology; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008579:Meningioma / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012042:Registries