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Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Pohjois-Karjala health care district in Finland in the invitation year 2008. Numbers of women in the target population, and invited and screened and estimated coverage of the biannual programme by age groups.

Age group1 Target 2008 Biannual programme
  population
31.12.2007
Invited
n
Screened
n

% of invited
Invited in
2007 or 2008
Coverage
% of population
50-54 6900 4088 3612 88.4 6897 100.0
55-59 6702 2716 2379 87.6 6709 100.1
60-64 6174 1927 1693 87.9 3523 57.1
65-69 4696 221 201 91.0 545 11.6
Total 24472 8952 7885 88.1 17674 72.2

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

Tabulation is based on registration from 17 municipalities:
ENO HEINÄVESI ILOMANTSI JOENSUU JUUKA KESÄLAHTI KITEE
KONTIOLAHTI OUTOKUMPU LIEKSA LIPERI NURMES POLVIJÄRVI PYHÄSELKÄ
RÄÄKKYLÄ TOHMAJÄRVI VALTIMO