UPDATED 15.10.2013 14:21


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Tampere region in Finland in the invitation year 1999. Numbers and percentage distribution of screened women, referrals to further examinations and to surgery, and histologically confirmed diagnoses by age groups.

Age group1 Screened Referral Additional
mammogram
Ultra-
sonography
Fine-needle
biopsy
Surgery Histological diagnosis
      Benign      Malignant    Unknown
  n n % n % n % n % n % n % n % n %
50-542 20450 711 3.48 707 3.46 605 2.96 178 0.87 92 0.45 23 0.11 61 0.30 8 0.04
55-592 13669 312 2.28 312 2.28 272 1.99 87 0.64 70 0.51 6 0.04 60 0.44 4 0.03
60-64 2565 62 2.42 62 2.42 57 2.22 21 0.82 21 0.82 6 0.23 14 0.55 1 0.04
65-69 306 6 1.96 6 1.96 6 1.96 1 0.33 2 0.65 1 0.33 1 0.33 - -
Total 36990 1091 2.95 1087 2.94 940 2.54 287 0.78 185 0.50 36 0.10 136 0.37 13 0.04

1 Age groups are defined on the basis of the invitation and the birth year.
2 Age groups targeted in the Decree of Public Health (1992).