UPDATED 17.10.2013 13:27


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Tampere region in Finland in the invitation year 2003. 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 24254 943 3.89 911 3.76 655 2.70 183 0.75 131 0.54 35 0.14 91 0.38 5 0.02
55-592 16547 555 3.35 535 3.23 396 2.39 108 0.65 79 0.48 13 0.08 66 0.40 - -
60-64 6083 211 3.47 187 3.07 159 2.61 36 0.59 45 0.74 6 0.10 36 0.59 3 0.05
65-69 1360 21 1.54 16 1.18 19 1.40 6 0.44 9 0.66 - - 9 0.66 - -
Total 48244 1730 3.59 1649 3.42 1229 2.55 333 0.69 264 0.55 54 0.11 202 0.42 8 0.02

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).