UPDATED 15.10.2013 14:21


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Varsinais-Suomi health care district in Finland in the invitation year 1999. 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 10879 204 1.88 204 1.88 158 1.45 50 0.46 45 0.41 15 0.14 30 0.28 - -
55-592 5094 96 1.88 96 1.88 84 1.65 27 0.53 28 0.55 4 0.08 24 0.47 - -
60-64 3057 58 1.90 58 1.90 49 1.60 21 0.69 18 0.59 7 0.23 11 0.36 - -
65-69 2306 47 2.04 47 2.04 40 1.73 12 0.52 13 0.56 3 0.13 10 0.43 - -
Total 21336 405 1.90 405 1.90 331 1.55 110 0.52 104 0.49 29 0.14 75 0.35 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).