UPDATED 20.11.2013 13:59

Organised breast cancer screening programme in Finland in the invitation year 2002. Numbers and percentage distribution of screened women, referrals to further examinations and to surgery, and histologically confirmed diagnoses by age groups. Information registered from 395 municipalities (out of 448).

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 88127 2877 3.26 2520 2.86 2115 2.40 512 0.58 518 0.59 143 0.16 351 0.40 24 0.03
55-592 53357 1387 2.60 1245 2.33 929 1.74 241 0.45 330 0.62 68 0.13 251 0.47 11 0.02
60-64 14488 340 2.35 319 2.20 271 1.87 79 0.55 86 0.59 12 0.08 69 0.48 5 0.03
65-69 4168 93 2.23 87 2.09 89 2.14 35 0.84 42 1.01 4 0.10 35 0.84 3 0.07
Total 160140 4697 2.93 4171 2.60 3404 2.13 867 0.54 976 0.61 227 0.14 706 0.44 43 0.03

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).