UPDATED 17.10.2013 12:00


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Helsinki and Uusimaa health care district in Finland in the invitation year 2000. Numbers of women in the target population, and invited and screened and estimated coverage of the biannual programme by age groups.

Age group1 Target 2000 Biannual programme
  population
31.12.1999
Invited
n
Screened
n

% of invited
Invited in
1999 or 2000
Coverage
% of population
50-542 23441 13688 11256 82.2 18631 79.5
55-592 18355 6397 5231 81.8 10531 57.4
60-64 14004 7 6 85.7 9 0.1
65-69 12141 3 2 66.7 7 0.1
Total 67941 20095 16495 82.1 29178 42.9

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