UPDATED 17.10.2013 12:17


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Helsinki and Uusimaa health care district in Finland in the invitation year 2006. Numbers of women in the target population, and invited and screened and estimated coverage of the biannual programme by age groups.

Age group1 Target 2006 Biannual programme
  population
31.12.2005
Invited
n
Screened
n

% of invited
Invited in
2005 or 2006
Coverage
% of population
50-542 20305 12345 10025 81.2 20392 100.4
55-592 21928 8696 7135 82.0 21968 100.2
60-64 18314 - - - - -
65-69 13982 - - - - -
Total 74529 21041 17160 81.6 42360 56.8

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

Tabulation is based on registration from 1 municipalities:
HELSINKI