UPDATED 17.10.2013 12:14


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Helsinki and Uusimaa health care district in Finland in the invitation year 2005. Numbers of women in the target population, and invited and screened and estimated coverage of the biannual programme by age groups.

Age group1 Target 2005 Biannual programme
  population
31.12.2004
Invited
n
Screened
n

% of invited
Invited in
2004 or 2005
Coverage
% of population
50-542 20257 12031 9503 79.0 20332 100.4
55-592 22872 9288 7411 79.8 22883 100.0
60-64 17285 - - - - -
65-69 12965 - - - - -
Total 73379 21319 16914 79.3 43215 58.9

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 1 municipalities:
HELSINKI