UPDATED 17.10.2013 12:03


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Helsinki and Uusimaa health care district in Finland in the invitation year 2001. Numbers of women in the target population, and invited and screened and estimated coverage of the biannual programme by age groups.

Age group1 Target 2001 Biannual programme
  population
31.12.2000
Invited
n
Screened
n

% of invited
Invited in
2000 or 2001
Coverage
% of population
50-542 22526 13362 10801 80.8 22182 98.5
55-592 19358 7856 6513 82.9 19120 98.8
60-64 15144 2 2 100.0 7 -
65-69 12001 3 3 100.0 8 0.1
Total 69029 21223 17319 81.6 41317 59.9

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).

Tabulation is based on registration from 1 municipalities:
HELSINKI