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Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Itä-Savo health care district in Finland in the invitation year 2000. Numbers of women in the target population, and invited and screened and estimated coverage of the biannual programme by age groups.

Age group1 Target 2000 Biannual programme
  population
31.12.1999
Invited
n
Screened
n

% of invited
Invited in
1999 or 2000
Coverage
% of population
50-542 2739 1623 1414 87.1 2728 99.6
55-592 2080 714 628 88.0 2069 99.5
60-64 2005 80 66 82.5 438 21.8
65-69 2093 27 25 92.6 27 1.3
Total 8917 2444 2133 87.3 5262 59.0

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 13 municipalities:
ENONKOSKI JOROINEN KANGASLAMPI KERIMÄKI KESÄLAHTI PARIKKALA PUNKAHARJU
RANTASALMI SAARI SAVONLINNA SAVONRANTA SULKAVA UUKUNIEMI