The data displays the registrations of newly diagnosed cases of cancer in England from 1995 to 2016, by gender. Cancer is an aggregation diseases in which cells within a part of the body begin to grow abnormally, often spreading to other parts of the body. In 2016, approx. 229 thousand males and 205 thousand females were registered as newly diagnosed with brain cancer. This was an increase from the previous year's number of registrations for newly diagnosed brain cancer incidents, among both males and females.
