UPDATED 17.10.2013 13:21


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Helsinki and Uusimaa health care district in Finland in the invitation year 2001. 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 %
50-542 26733 445 1.66 431 1.61 410 1.53 171 0.64 145 0.54 40 0.15 104 0.39 1 0.00
55-592 15872 247 1.56 238 1.50 234 1.47 94 0.59 100 0.63 15 0.09 85 0.54 - -
60-64 2492 41 1.65 39 1.57 39 1.57 17 0.68 13 0.52 - - 13 0.52 - -
65-69 942 14 1.49 14 1.49 14 1.49 6 0.64 5 0.53 - - 5 0.53 - -
Total 46039 747 1.62 722 1.57 697 1.51 288 0.63 263 0.57 55 0.12 207 0.45 1 0.00

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).