UPDATED 12.06.2014 13:33


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Tampere region in Finland in the invitation year 2012. 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 %
50-54 20464 648 3.17 467 2.28 640 3.13 10 0.05 107 0.52 19 0.09 82 0.40 6 0.03
55-59 15076 315 2.09 222 1.47 312 2.07 8 0.05 90 0.60 12 0.08 71 0.47 7 0.05
60-64 23647 554 2.34 392 1.66 547 2.31 10 0.04 181 0.77 18 0.08 159 0.67 4 0.02
65-69 8659 215 2.48 145 1.67 213 2.46 5 0.06 106 1.22 6 0.07 97 1.12 3 0.03
Total 67846 1732 2.55 1226 1.81 1712 2.52 33 0.05 484 0.71 55 0.08 409 0.60 20 0.03

1 Age groups are defined on the basis of the invitation and the birth year.