UPDATED 17.10.2013 13:17


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Turku region in Finland in the invitation year 2000. 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 12040 200 1.66 200 1.66 173 1.44 53 0.44 61 0.51 25 0.21 35 0.29 1 0.01
55-592 7874 119 1.51 118 1.50 103 1.31 37 0.47 47 0.60 7 0.09 40 0.51 - -
60-64 2189 37 1.69 37 1.69 31 1.42 17 0.78 19 0.87 2 0.09 16 0.73 1 0.05
65-69 2438 41 1.68 40 1.64 36 1.48 22 0.90 24 0.98 3 0.12 20 0.82 1 0.04
Total 24541 397 1.62 395 1.61 343 1.40 129 0.53 151 0.62 37 0.15 111 0.45 3 0.01

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).