UPDATED 20.11.2013 14:05

Organised breast cancer screening programme in Finland in the invitation year 2004. Numbers and percentage distribution of screened women, referrals to further examinations and to surgery, and histologically confirmed diagnoses by age groups. Information registered from 392 municipalities (out of 444).

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 85527 2898 3.39 2169 2.54 2197 2.57 393 0.46 521 0.61 122 0.14 375 0.44 24 0.03
55-592 61256 1577 2.57 1262 2.06 1099 1.79 209 0.34 374 0.61 69 0.11 295 0.48 10 0.02
60-64 14564 418 2.87 315 2.16 330 2.27 72 0.49 104 0.71 13 0.09 84 0.58 7 0.05
65-69 5874 109 1.86 59 1.00 95 1.62 15 0.26 51 0.87 8 0.14 38 0.65 5 0.09
Total 167221 5002 2.99 3805 2.28 3721 2.23 689 0.41 1050 0.63 212 0.13 792 0.47 46 0.03

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).