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This study provides survival analysis for 19,774 histo- logically confirmed first primary brain and other cen- tral nervous system (CNS) cancers diagnosed from 1988 through 2001 from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The analysis performed in this study at- tempts to better understand the influence of morphologic and demographic factors on survival. Other CNS cancers include cancers of the central nervous system and malig- nant meningiomas of the brain. Benign and borderline tumors are not included in these analyses. Brain and other CNS cancers are considered to be rare compared to prostate, lung, breast, or colon cancer. It is estimated there will be 18,820 new cases diagnosed of and 12,820 deaths from brain and other CNS cancer in the United States each year (1). The average annual age- adjusted incidence rate for brain and other CNS cancer in the United States is 7.6 per 100,000 for males and 5.4 per 100,000 for females (white males: 8.3 per 100,000; white females: 5.9 per 100,000; black males: 4.9 per 100,000; black females: 3.5 per 100,000) (2). The average annual age-adjusted mortality rate is approximately 4.5 per 100,000 for all races combined, with males having a higher mortality rate as compared to females (2).