Descriptive Epidemiology of Brain and Central Nervous System Tumours: Results from Iran National Cancer Registry, 2010-2014

Table 6

Geographical distribution of CNS tumours by provinces.

Region	Province	ASR			Number				Mean age
		Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	M/F ratio
North/North West	Ardebil	4.72	4.04	4.61	132	104	236	1.3	42.5
	Golestan	3.59	2.54	3.20	134	87	221	1.5	43.5
	Guilan	4.89	4.09	4.73	324	245	569	1.3	52.4
	Mazandaran	2.85	1.98	2.41	213	153	366	1.4	44.9
	North Khorasan	4.56	3.38	4.48	72	60	132	1.2	44.5
	East Azarbaijan	2.72	2.37	2.85	258	225	483	1.1	49.9
	Kordestan	4.29	3.64	3.95	156	124	280	1.3	43.8
	West Azarbaijan	4.01	3.09	3.54	276	221	497	1.2	46.6
	Zanjan	3.87	3.20	3.53	96	79	175	1.2	44.1
West	Hamedan	4.27	3.32	3.80	189	128	317	1.5	46
	Ilam	3.16	1.68	2.52	37	20	57	1.9	52.3
	Kermanshah	3.85	1.83	2.39	131	88	219	1.5	43
	Khouzestan	6.55	4.89	5.84	623	452	1075	1.4	43.1
	Lorestan	7.08	4.69	6.06	273	172	445	1.6	46.3
Center	Alborz	4.67	2.61	3.71	262	137	399	1.9	48.5
	Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari	3.34	2.25	2.89	65	47	112	1.4	41.4
	Qazvin	3.49	2.28	2.88	95	63	158	1.5	46.5
	Isfahan	6.87	5.27	6.35	808	568	1376	1.4	50.6
	Kerman	4.82	3.76	4.32	292	234	526	1.2	44.1
	Kohgiluyeh and Booyer Ahmad	4.84	2.89	3.87	78	39	117	2	34.9
	Markazi	8.46	6.15	7.29	305	217	522	1.4	51.9
	Semnan	5.28	4.12	4.69	79	58	137	1.4	50
	Tehran	5.33	3.71	4.52	1618	1098	2716	1.5	45.1
	Yazd	10.45	9.33	9.86	270	229	499	1.2	48.3
	Qom	1.51	2.09	1.85	43	52	95	0.8	45.9
East	Razavi Khorasan	6.31	4.74	5.59	838	615	1453	1.4	44.7
	Sistan and Baluchestan	2.75	2.12	2.44	126	91	217	1.4	37.2
	South Khorasan	3.42	2.20	2.81	48	31	79	1.5	41.5
South	Bushehr	3.83	1.76	2.83	88	36	124	2.4	40.6
	Fars	8.31	6.24	7.47	886	626	1512	1.4	46.7
	Hormozgan	2.77	2.42	2.58	91	78	169	1.2	38.9
Unknown		0.46	0.27	0.37	789	475	1264	1.7	34.1