UPDATED 21.11.2013 08:12


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Tampere region in Finland in the invitation year 2010. 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 %
50-54 21421 689 3.22 460 2.15 668 3.12 11 0.05 149 0.70 29 0.14 115 0.54 5 0.02
55-59 15604 375 2.40 262 1.68 358 2.29 6 0.04 102 0.65 11 0.07 89 0.57 2 0.01
60-64 22319 556 2.49 375 1.68 539 2.41 16 0.07 191 0.86 25 0.11 165 0.74 1 0.00
65-69 5216 135 2.59 91 1.74 130 2.49 12 0.23 62 1.19 3 0.06 59 1.13 - -
Total 64560 1755 2.72 1188 1.84 1695 2.63 45 0.07 504 0.78 68 0.11 428 0.66 8 0.01

1 Age groups are defined on the basis of the invitation and the birth year.