UPDATED 15.10.2013 14:19

Organised breast cancer screening programme 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. Information registered from 410 municipalities (out of 452).

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 179422 99462 87053 87.5 174490 97.3
55-592 128727 45938 40685 88.6 118975 92.4
60-64 118476 20223 16963 83.9 39257 33.1
65-69 114090 5692 4409 77.5 13639 12.0
Total 540715 171315 149110 87.0 346361 64.1

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).