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Organised breast cancer screening programme in Finland in the invitation year 1991. Numbers of women in the target population, and invited and screened, and estimated coverage of the biannual programme by age groups. Information registered from 278 municipalities (out of 461).

Age group1 Target 1991 Biannual programme
  population
31.12.1990
Invited
n
Screened
n

% of invited
Invited in
1990 or 1991
Coverage
% of population
50-542 79497 49334 42895 86.9 75172 94.6
55-592 71146 29280 24199 82.6 69933 98.3
60-64 77186 32403 28251 87.2 50285 65.1
65-69 75344 4525 3759 83.1 6283 8.3
Total 303173 115542 99104 85.8 201673 66.5

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).