UPDATED 21.11.2013 08:15


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Varsinais-Suomi health care district in Finland in the invitation year 2011. 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 %
50-54 8852 377 4.26 372 4.20 363 4.10 - - 67 0.76 10 0.11 45 0.51 12 0.14
55-59 4884 155 3.17 155 3.17 151 3.09 - - 32 0.66 6 0.12 24 0.49 2 0.04
60-64 10493 306 2.92 305 2.91 296 2.82 - - 109 1.04 16 0.15 85 0.81 8 0.08
65-69 4336 154 3.55 152 3.51 149 3.44 - - 57 1.31 10 0.23 42 0.97 5 0.12
Total 28565 992 3.47 984 3.44 959 3.36 0 0.00 265 0.93 42 0.15 196 0.69 27 0.09

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