UPDATED 15.10.2013 14:16


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Vaasa health care district in Finland in the invitation year 1997. 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 3119 101 3.24 101 3.24 88 2.82 20 0.64 28 0.90 15 0.48 12 0.38 1 0.03
55-592 1674 31 1.85 31 1.85 28 1.67 3 0.18 10 0.60 3 0.18 7 0.42 - -
60-64 1040 19 1.83 19 1.83 18 1.73 1 0.10 9 0.87 3 0.29 6 0.58 - -
65-69 477 9 1.89 9 1.89 7 1.47 2 0.42 5 1.05 1 0.21 4 0.84 - -
Total 6310 160 2.54 160 2.54 141 2.23 26 0.41 52 0.82 22 0.35 29 0.46 1 0.02

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).