UPDATED 17.10.2013 13:27


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Helsinki region in Finland in the invitation year 2003. 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 32065 816 2.54 757 2.36 456 1.42 157 0.49 219 0.68 63 0.20 152 0.47 4 0.01
55-592 24475 484 1.98 451 1.84 297 1.21 111 0.45 176 0.72 32 0.13 133 0.54 11 0.04
60-64 7743 172 2.22 157 2.03 159 2.05 61 0.79 58 0.75 9 0.12 48 0.62 1 0.01
65-69 1849 58 3.14 51 2.76 52 2.81 21 1.14 24 1.30 3 0.16 20 1.08 1 0.05
Total 66132 1530 2.31 1416 2.14 964 1.46 350 0.53 477 0.72 107 0.16 353 0.53 17 0.03

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).