UPDATED 20.11.2013 13:59
Organised breast cancer screening programme in Finland in the invitation year 2002. Numbers and percentage distribution of screened women, referrals to further examinations and to surgery, and histologically confirmed diagnoses by age groups. Information registered from 395 municipalities (out of 448).
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 | 88127 | 2877 | 3.26 | 2520 | 2.86 | 2115 | 2.40 | 512 | 0.58 | 518 | 0.59 | 143 | 0.16 | 351 | 0.40 | 24 | 0.03 |
55-592 | 53357 | 1387 | 2.60 | 1245 | 2.33 | 929 | 1.74 | 241 | 0.45 | 330 | 0.62 | 68 | 0.13 | 251 | 0.47 | 11 | 0.02 |
60-64 | 14488 | 340 | 2.35 | 319 | 2.20 | 271 | 1.87 | 79 | 0.55 | 86 | 0.59 | 12 | 0.08 | 69 | 0.48 | 5 | 0.03 |
65-69 | 4168 | 93 | 2.23 | 87 | 2.09 | 89 | 2.14 | 35 | 0.84 | 42 | 1.01 | 4 | 0.10 | 35 | 0.84 | 3 | 0.07 |
Total | 160140 | 4697 | 2.93 | 4171 | 2.60 | 3404 | 2.13 | 867 | 0.54 | 976 | 0.61 | 227 | 0.14 | 706 | 0.44 | 43 | 0.03 |