UPDATED 20.11.2013 14:10

Organised breast cancer screening programme in Finland in the invitation year 2006. Numbers of women in the target population, and invited and screened, and estimated coverage of the biannual programme by age groups. Information registered from 400 municipalities (out of 431).

Age group1 Target 2006 Biannual programme
  population
31.12.2005
Invited
n
Screened
n

% of invited
Invited in
2005 or 2006
Coverage
% of population
50-542 163303 99069 86012 86.8 162939 99.8
55-592 171617 70294 61483 87.5 171488 99.9
60-64 134188 19150 16853 88.0 38279 28.5
65-69 118799 6445 5663 87.9 14533 12.2
Total 587907 194958 170011 87.2 387239 65.9

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).