UPDATED 21.11.2013 07:55


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Helsinki and Uusimaa health care district 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 9252 227 2.45 157 1.70 224 2.42 - - 39 0.42 5 0.05 34 0.37 - -
55-59 6386 103 1.61 67 1.05 101 1.58 - - 26 0.41 1 0.02 25 0.39 - -
60-64 10304 203 1.97 140 1.36 197 1.91 - - 84 0.82 3 0.03 79 0.77 2 0.02
65-69 4494 85 1.89 52 1.16 82 1.82 - - 39 0.87 4 0.09 35 0.78 - -
Total 30436 618 2.03 416 1.37 604 1.98 0 0.00 188 0.62 13 0.04 173 0.57 2 0.01

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