UPDATED 15.10.2013 14:09

Organised breast cancer screening programme in Finland in the invitation year 1994. Numbers of women in the target population, and invited and screened, and estimated coverage of the biannual programme by age groups. Information registered from 394 municipalities (out of 455).

Age group1 Target 1994 Biannual programme
  population
31.12.1993
Invited
n
Screened
n

% of invited
Invited in
1993 or 1994
Coverage
% of population
50-542 120967 55704 48983 87.9 115832 95.8
55-592 115826 60000 53366 88.9 111164 96.0
60-64 108558 21106 17020 80.6 41855 38.6
65-69 112280 3937 3352 85.1 17417 15.5
Total 457631 140747 122721 87.2 286268 62.6

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).