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Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Pohjois-Pohjanmaa health care district 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 4717 153 3.24 150 3.18 127 2.69 31 0.66 31 0.66 13 0.28 16 0.34 2 0.04
55-592 3092 71 2.30 70 2.26 63 2.04 16 0.52 19 0.61 3 0.10 13 0.42 3 0.10
60-64 809 6 0.74 6 0.74 4 0.49 2 0.25 4 0.49 2 0.25 2 0.25 - -
65-69 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Total 8618 230 2.67 226 2.62 194 2.25 49 0.57 54 0.63 18 0.21 31 0.36 5 0.06

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).