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Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Uusimaa and Helsinki health care districts in Finland in the invitation year 1996. 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 15835 562 3.55 562 3.55 558 3.52 238 1.50 115 0.73 41 0.26 73 0.46 1 0.01
55-592 7683 163 2.12 163 2.12 161 2.10 73 0.95 40 0.52 3 0.04 36 0.47 1 0.01
60-64 1807 28 1.55 28 1.55 28 1.55 21 1.16 10 0.55 3 0.17 7 0.39 - -
65-69 1023 28 2.74 28 2.74 28 2.74 22 2.15 18 1.76 4 0.39 14 1.37 - -
Total 26348 781 2.96 781 2.96 775 2.94 354 1.34 183 0.69 51 0.19 130 0.49 2 0.01

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).