UPDATED 12.06.2014 13:33


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Kymenlaakso health care district in Finland in the invitation year 2012. 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 3214 88 2.74 4 0.12 87 2.71 - - 25 0.78 10 0.31 13 0.40 2 0.06
55-59 2303 51 2.21 1 0.04 50 2.17 1 0.04 18 0.78 7 0.30 11 0.48 - -
60-64 3850 89 2.31 - - 89 2.31 - - 35 0.91 7 0.18 24 0.62 4 0.10
65-69 70 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Total 9437 228 2.42 5 0.05 226 2.39 1 0.01 78 0.83 24 0.25 48 0.51 6 0.06

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