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Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Helsinki health care district in Finland in the invitation year 1998. Numbers of women in the target population, and invited and screened and estimated coverage of the biannual programme by age groups.

Age group1 Target 1998 Biannual programme
  population
31.12.1997
Invited
n
Screened
n

% of invited
Invited in
1997 or 1998
Coverage
% of population
50-542 22932 13193 10704 81.1 22586 98.5
55-592 16263 - - - 10518 64.7
60-64 13442 - - - - -
65-69 12377 - - - 5 -
Total 65014 13193 10704 81.1 33109 50.9

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).

Tabulation is based on registration from 1 municipalities:
HELSINKI