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Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Helsinki health care district in Finland in the invitation year 1996. Numbers of women in the target population, and invited and screened and estimated coverage of the biannual programme by age groups.

Age group1 Target 1996 Biannual programme
  population
31.12.1995
Invited
n
Screened
n

% of invited
Invited in
1995 or 1996
Coverage
% of population
50-542 19697 11406 9260 81.2 19481 98.9
55-592 15828 5776 4788 82.9 15709 99.2
60-64 12825 - - - - -
65-69 12701 - - - - -
Total 61051 17182 14048 81.8 35190 57.6

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