UPDATED 17.10.2013 13:29


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Tampere region in Finland in the invitation year 2004. 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 23270 917 3.94 793 3.41 702 3.02 166 0.71 141 0.61 34 0.15 105 0.45 2 0.01
55-592 17294 626 3.62 575 3.32 442 2.56 97 0.56 116 0.67 20 0.12 96 0.56 - -
60-64 5270 250 4.74 232 4.40 177 3.36 48 0.91 47 0.89 7 0.13 37 0.70 3 0.06
65-69 1847 39 2.11 31 1.68 33 1.79 12 0.65 16 0.87 2 0.11 13 0.70 1 0.05
Total 47681 1832 3.84 1631 3.42 1354 2.84 323 0.68 320 0.67 63 0.13 251 0.53 6 0.01

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).