UPDATED 17.10.2013 13:21


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Turku region 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 15586 206 1.32 195 1.25 179 1.15 53 0.34 64 0.41 12 0.08 51 0.33 1 0.01
55-592 9689 96 0.99 89 0.92 76 0.78 34 0.35 41 0.42 11 0.11 29 0.30 1 0.01
60-64 3126 41 1.31 38 1.22 36 1.15 19 0.61 23 0.74 2 0.06 20 0.64 1 0.03
65-69 2632 46 1.75 44 1.67 43 1.63 20 0.76 15 0.57 3 0.11 12 0.46 - -
Total 31033 389 1.25 366 1.18 334 1.08 126 0.41 143 0.46 28 0.09 112 0.36 3 0.01

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).