UPDATED 20.11.2013 14:54


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Pirkanmaan health care district in Finland in the invitation year 2000. 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 9857 518 5.26 512 5.19 486 4.93 128 1.30 59 0.60 16 0.16 43 0.44 - -
55-592 4395 183 4.16 183 4.16 174 3.96 60 1.37 35 0.80 7 0.16 28 0.64 - -
60-64 1453 94 6.47 94 6.47 92 6.33 27 1.86 20 1.38 7 0.48 13 0.89 - -
65-69 116 2 1.72 2 1.72 2 1.72 1 0.86 2 1.72 - - 2 1.72 - -
Total 15821 797 5.04 791 5.00 754 4.77 216 1.37 116 0.73 30 0.19 86 0.54 0 0.00

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).