Tumour category   Statistical difference between tumour categories, adj. p-value   GLI ME AC PA p - value GLI/ ME GLI/ AC GLI/ PA ME/ AC ME/ PA AC/ PA KPS 60 (50-70) 80 (60-90) 70 (65-90) 70 (60-70) 0.032 0.038           QOL 58 (27-71) 69 (49-97) 62 (47-91) 91 (67-96)               Distress 65 (51-91) 34 (3-60) 38 (11-68) 8 (6-45)               Feeling sad or depressed 46 (15-71) 0 (0-22) 0 (0-24) 7 (4-21) 0.014 0.012 (0.059)         Tiredness 67 (51-89) 0 (0-23) 0 (0-2) 75 (46-88) 0.000 0.001 0.004     (0.064) (0.054) Incontinence 33 (0-69) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-10) 0.010 0.006           Feeling dependent on the other people 47 (10-92) 0 (0-31) 0 (0-28) 32 (16-58) 0.028 0.028           Difficulty of concentration 24 (22-28) 0 (0-13) 0 (0-26) 18 (11-24) 0.049 (0.068)           Memory disturbance 66 (56-76) 13 (0-39) 3 (0-20) 81 (41-89) 0.016 (0.066) 0.024         GLI = Gliomas, Men = Meningiomas, PA = Pituitary adenomas, AC = Acoustic neurinomas KPS = Karnofsky Performance Scale, QOL = Quality of Life Values are median (IQR, interquartile range) if not otherwise stated * Non-parametric Kruskall-Wallis one-way ANOVA test with pairwise differences corrected for multiple comparisons, two-sided tests

Table 2: Median (IQR) values of quality of life related variables in different tumor categories of brain tumors for females. Table 2 shows the mean values of the quality of life variables by different tumor categories for females. Only those results which showed statistically significant differences among patients in different histological subgroups are shown. In (Table 2) the data is shown only for females, because among male brain tumor patients there were no statistical differences in quality of life variables.