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Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Itä-Savo health care district in Finland in the invitation year 2009. Numbers of women in the target population, and invited and screened and estimated coverage of the biannual programme by age groups.

Age group1 Target 2009 Biannual programme
  population
31.12.2008
Invited
n
Screened
n

% of invited
Invited in
2008 or 2009
Coverage
% of population
50-54 2000 1226 1052 85.8 2006 100.3
55-59 2197 855 766 89.6 2193 99.8
60-64 2335 951 848 89.2 1415 60.6
65-69 1611 - - - - -
Total 8143 3032 2666 87.9 5614 68.9

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

Tabulation is based on registration from 7 municipalities:
ENONKOSKI KERIMÄKI PARIKKALA PUNKAHARJU RANTASALMI SAVONLINNA SULKAVA