UPDATED 21.11.2013 08:15


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Helsinki and Uusimaa health care district in Finland in the invitation year 2011. 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 %
50-54 24441 664 2.72 421 1.72 645 2.64 4 0.02 120 0.49 18 0.07 99 0.41 3 0.01
55-59 16480 312 1.89 198 1.20 304 1.84 5 0.03 103 0.63 8 0.05 95 0.58 - -
60-64 25527 543 2.13 353 1.38 528 2.07 4 0.02 190 0.74 11 0.04 172 0.67 7 0.03
65-69 12690 304 2.40 205 1.62 300 2.36 4 0.03 127 1.00 5 0.04 118 0.93 4 0.03
Total 79138 1823 2.30 1177 1.49 1777 2.25 17 0.02 540 0.68 42 0.05 484 0.61 14 0.02

1 Age groups are defined on the basis of the invitation and the birth year.