Table 15: Number of Cases and Percent of First Primary Malignant Central Nervous System Tumors by Demographics and Anatomic Site, 65 Years and Older, California, 2001-2005
Demographic Characteristics		Diffuse astrocytoma		Anaplastic astrocytoma		Astrocytoma, NOS		Glioblastoma		Oligodendro-glioma		Ependymoma / anaplastic ependymoma		Anaplastic oligodendro-glioma		Mixed glioma		Glioma malignant, NOS		Meningioma		Lymphoma		Neoplasm, NOS		Other		Total
		n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Sex	Male	9	50.0%	74	49.7%	57	48.7%	975	52.7%	18	54.5%	18	48.6%	10	43.5%	16	59.3%	75	50.7%	26	46.4%	130	46.1%	61	42.4%	18	50.0%	1,487	50.9%
	Female	9	50.0%	75	50.3%	60	51.3%	875	47.3%	15	45.5%	19	51.4%	13	56.5%	11	40.7%	73	49.3%	30	53.6%	152	53.9%	83	57.6%	18	50.0%	1,433	49.1%
Race/Ethnicity	Non-Hispanic White	15	83.3%	117	78.5%	82	70.1%	1,414	76.4%	25	75.8%	24	64.9%	16	69.6%	22	81.5%	109	73.6%	37	66.1%	190	67.4%	113	78.5%	21	58.3%	2,185	74.8%
	Non-Hispanic Black	<5	5.6%	<5	1.3%	<5	2.6%	56	3.0%	<5	3.0%	<5	8.1%	<5	4.3%	<5	3.7%	9	6.1%	3	5.4%	9	3.2%	9	6.3%	<5	5.6%	100	3.4%
	Hispanic	<5	11.1%	20	13.4%	24	20.5%	280	15.1%	5	15.2%	7	18.9%	<5	13.0%	<5	7.4%	20	13.5%	11	19.6%	37	13.1%	16	11.1%	9	25.0%	436	14.9%
	Asian-Pacific Islander	0	0.0%	10	6.7%	7	6.0%	97	5.2%	<5	6.1%	<5	8.1%	<5	13.0%	<5	7.4%	9	6.1%	5	8.9%	44	15.6%	6	4.2%	<5	11.1%	192	6.6%
	Other/Unknown	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	<5	0.9%	<5	0.2%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	<5	0.7%	0	0.0%	<5	0.7%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	7	0.2%
Socioeconomic Status	Low	7	38.9%	34	22.8%	45	38.5%	527	28.5%	9	27.3%	11	29.7%	10	43.5%	5	18.5%	42	28.4%	12	21.4%	93	33.0%	55	38.2%	13	36.1%	863	29.6%
	Medium	5	27.8%	40	26.8%	24	20.5%	398	21.5%	6	18.2%	9	24.3%	6	26.1%	6	22.2%	33	22.3%	13	23.2%	60	21.3%	34	23.6%	10	27.8%	644	22.1%
	High	6	33.3%	75	50.3%	48	41.0%	925	50.0%	18	54.5%	17	45.9%	7	30.4%	16	59.3%	73	49.3%	31	55.4%	129	45.7%	55	38.2%	13	36.1%	1,413	48.4%
Level of Urbanization	Rural	<5	22.2%	7	4.7%	7	6.0%	138	7.5%	<5	6.1%	<5	5.4%	<5	13.0%	<5	3.7%	15	10.1%	8	14.3%	23	8.2%	13	9.0%	<5	5.6%	225	7.7%
	Urban	14	77.8%	142	95.3%	110	94.0%	1,712	92.5%	31	93.9%	35	94.6%	20	87.0%	26	96.3%	133	89.9%	48	85.7%	259	91.8%	131	91.0%	34	94.4%	2,695	92.3%
Total		18		149		117		1,850		33		37		23		27		148		56		282		144		36		2,920