Global Burden of Pediatric Central Nervous System Tumors

JAMA Netw Open. 2026 Jul 1;9(7):e2625174. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.25174.

Jordan T Roach^{1

2

3}, Nickhill Bhakta^{4

5}, Ibrahim Qaddoumi^{4

5}, Eric Bouffet⁶, Giles W Robinson⁵, Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo^{4

5}, Eva Steliarova-Foucher⁷, Freddie Bray⁷, Daniel C Moreira^{4

5}

¹ College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis.
² Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
³ Department of Developmental Neurobiology, Division of Brain Tumor Research, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
⁴ Department of Global Pediatric Medicine, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
⁵ Department of Oncology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
⁶ Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.
⁷ Cancer Surveillance Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.

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Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study investigates the global incidence of pediatric central nervous system tumors in 2022.