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Cases by country, the UK and NHS pathway and other country lenses, the expert centres with trials on record, and the centres named on this cancer's subtypes.
Site: Brain, central nervous system (shared total; subtype split not reported). World: 324,095 new cases a year.
| # | Country | New cases | Incidence ASR |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 91,660 | |
| 2 | India | 29,794 | |
| 3 | United States of America | 24,567 | |
| 4 | Brazil | 13,072 | |
| 5 | Russian Federation | 8,846 | |
| 6 | Pakistan | 8,003 | |
| 7 | Germany | 7,603 | |
| 8 | Indonesia | 7,516 | |
| 9 | Japan | 6,156 | |
| 10 | France (metropolitan) | 6,054 |
All brain and CNS tumours combined; glioblastoma is roughly half of malignant gliomas and GLOBOCAN does not report grade or IDH status.
Country-level death counts mix every stage, subtype and year of diagnosis, and reflect access to screening and treatment as much as the disease. Survival differs by stage, subtype and year; the cancer page above leads with what can be done.
| # | Country | New cases | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 91,660 | 57,607 |
| 2 | India | 29,794 | 24,620 |
| 3 | United States of America | 24,567 | 18,883 |
| 4 | Brazil | 13,072 | 11,404 |
| 5 | Russian Federation | 8,846 | 8,164 |
| 6 | Pakistan | 8,003 | 6,470 |
| 7 | Germany | 7,603 | 6,599 |
| 8 | Indonesia | 7,516 | 6,584 |
| 9 | Japan | 6,156 | 3,631 |
| 10 | France (metropolitan) | 6,054 | 4,596 |
World: 324,095 new cases and 248,964 deaths a year (GLOBOCAN 2024).
Boston · hospital | United States | 0 | 3,620 | 55,551 | #16 | ||
Heidelberg · cancer center | Germany | none recorded | 1 | 2,172 | 30,102 | #18 | |
Stanford · university | United States | 0 | 3,114 | 49,877 | #30 | ||
Philadelphia · cancer center | United States | 0 | 3,093 | 52,239 | - | ||
Heidelberg · research institute | Germany | none recorded | 0 | 2,412 | 34,047 | - | |
St. Louis, MO · cancer center | United States | 0 | 2,023 | 24,607 | - | ||
Dallas, TX · cancer center | United States | 0 | 1,628 | 18,297 | - | ||
Utrecht · cancer center | Netherlands | none recorded | 0 | 1,495 | 21,850 | - | |
Vienna · cancer center | Austria | none recorded | 0 | 1,277 | 17,836 | - | |
Tianjin · cancer center | China | none recorded | 0 | 1,264 | 11,148 | - | |
Duarte, CA · cancer center | United States | 0 | 1,220 | 16,232 | - | ||
Rozzano (Milan) · hospital | Italy | none recorded | 0 | 1,212 | 11,269 | - | |
Hangzhou · cancer center | China | none recorded | 0 | 1,088 | 14,912 | - | |
Jinan · cancer center | China | none recorded | 0 | 1,030 | 9,060 | - | |
Charlottesville, VA · cancer center | United States | 0 | 1,029 | 13,626 | - |
These are the things we can measure; they are not a ranking of quality. Each column is a field on the institution record or a count over what OnCo has linked; a centre that treats many patients with Glioma & glioblastoma but is thinly recorded here will look small.
Not known: OnCo holds no case-volume or outcome figures for centres, so none are shown. Where a national audit or registry publishes them, the centre's page links to it. Default order: Newsweek rank, then trials for this cancer, then research output.
131 centres are named on one of the types below rather than on Glioma & glioblastoma itself. Grouped by the type that holds them; the full table for each sits on that type's page.