UPDATED 15.10.2013 14:14

Organised breast cancer screening programme in Finland in the invitation year 1996. Numbers of women in the target population, and invited and screened, and estimated coverage of the biannual programme by age groups. Information registered from 275 municipalities (out of 455).

Age group1 Target 1996 Biannual programme
  population
31.12.1995
Invited
n
Screened
n

% of invited
Invited in
1995 or 1996
Coverage
% of population
50-542 107386 61187 53971 88.2 105023 97.8
55-592 92986 36693 32730 89.2 90290 97.1
60-64 80838 14771 13183 89.2 31584 39.1
65-69 84518 5530 4716 85.3 13082 15.5
Total 365728 118181 104600 88.5 239979 65.6

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).