Table 9: Number of Cases and Percent of Selected First Primary Benign Central Nervous System Tumors by Demographics and Histology, 20-64 Year Olds, California, 2001-2005
Demographic Characteristics		Pilocytic Astrocytoma		Choroid plexus		Nueronal / glial, neuronal and mixed		Nerve sheath tumors		Meningioma		Hemangioma		Pituitary Gland		Neoplasm, NOS		Other		Total
		n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Sex	Male	52	46.8%	8	38.1%	29	55.8%	1,030	50.6%	975	25.2%	27	40.9%	1,101	45.0%	18	45.0%	23	54.8%	3,263	37.6%
	Female	59	53.2%	13	61.9%	23	44.2%	1,007	49.4%	2,888	74.8%	39	59.1%	1,343	55.0%	22	55.0%	19	45.2%	5,413	62.4%
Race/Ethnicity	Non-Hispanic White	67	60.4%	10	47.6%	35	67.3%	1,306	64.1%	2,295	59.4%	38	57.6%	1,047	42.8%	22	55.0%	17	40.5%	4,837	55.8%
	Non-Hispanic Black	5	4.5%	<5	4.8%	<5	3.8%	58	2.8%	266	6.9%	<5	4.5%	221	9.0%	<5	7.5%	2	4.8%	561	6.5%
	Hispanic	26	23.4%	7	33.3%	11	21.2%	358	17.6%	815	21.1%	14	21.2%	875	35.8%	11	27.5%	19	45.2%	2,136	24.6%
	Asian-Pacific Islander	11	9.9%	3	14.3%	<5	7.7%	256	12.6%	444	11.5%	11	16.7%	271	11.1%	<5	5.0%	<5	9.5%	1,006	11.6%
	Other/Unknown	<5	1.8%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	59	2.9%	43	1.1%	0	0.0%	30	1.2%	<5	5.0%	0	0.0%	136	1.6%
Socioeconomic Status	Low	39	35.1%	6	28.6%	9	17.3%	506	24.8%	1,246	32.3%	17	25.8%	960	39.3%	17	42.5%	15	35.7%	2,815	32.4%
	Medium	20	18.0%	6	28.6%	13	25.0%	384	18.9%	822	21.3%	18	27.3%	487	19.9%	10	25.0%	11	26.2%	1,771	20.4%
	High	52	46.8%	9	42.9%	30	57.7%	1,147	56.3%	1,795	46.5%	31	47.0%	997	40.8%	13	32.5%	16	38.1%	4,090	47.1%
Level of Urbanization	Rural	8	7.2%	<5	4.8%	<5	1.9%	128	6.3%	247	6.4%	5	7.6%	117	4.8%	8	20.0%	<5	9.5%	519	6.0%
	Urban	103	92.8%	20	95.2%	51	98.1%	1,909	93.7%	3,616	93.6%	61	92.4%	2,327	95.2%	32	80.0%	38	90.5%	8,157	94.0%
Total		111		21		52		2,037		3,863		66		2,444		40		42		8,676