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Is the number of people with brain and other central nervous system tumors increasing?

April 26, 2017brain nervous system people Tumors

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Is the number of people with brain and other central nervous system tumors increasing?

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The number of people with metastatic brain tumors (those that have spread from another part of the body) is increasing. Cancer patients are living longer, giving cancer cells more time to spread to the brain. Cancers that begin in the brain do not appear to be increasing.