New government data, released in May by a member of the Danish Parliament, show a near doubling of this fatal brain tumor, glioblastoma multiforme, since the year 2000. You can see the trend by following the orange line in the histogram below.
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Incidence of GBM in Denmark, 1995-2017 (blue bars); % increase relative to 1995 (orange line).
Prepared by a Danish epidemiologist for Microwave News.
For the story —and some caveats— behind these numbers, please see companion article: “Danish Spike in GBM Is Back.”
After I received the Danish graph, I asked Alasdair Philips to make a similar one for English GBM which he has previously shown follows a similar trend. His data set doesn’t include the most recent couple of years; still, you can see the same approximate doubling. (For details, see our report on Philips’s study, and follow-up.)
Incidence of GBM in England, 1995-2015 (blue bars); % increase relative to 1995 (orange line).
Prepared by Alasdair Philips for Microwave News.
In past articles, I have reported similar trends for GBM in Sweden and in The Netherlands.
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