UPDATED 20.11.2013 14:10

Organised breast cancer screening programme in Finland in the invitation year 2006. Numbers and percentage distribution of screened women, referrals to further examinations and to surgery, and histologically confirmed diagnoses by age groups. Information registered from 400 municipalities (out of 431).

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 %
50-542 86012 2426 2.82 1846 2.15 2140 2.49 270 0.31 482 0.56 122 0.14 352 0.41 8 0.01
55-592 61483 1229 2.00 1014 1.65 1054 1.71 151 0.25 322 0.52 44 0.07 275 0.45 3 0.00
60-64 16853 363 2.15 321 1.90 303 1.80 29 0.17 121 0.72 13 0.08 105 0.62 3 0.02
65-69 5663 95 1.68 89 1.57 90 1.59 11 0.19 35 0.62 3 0.05 31 0.55 1 0.02
Total 170011 4113 2.42 3270 1.92 3587 2.11 461 0.27 960 0.56 182 0.11 763 0.45 15 0.01

1 Age groups are defined on the basis of the invitation and the birth year.
2 Age groups targeted in the Decree of Public Health (1992).