UPDATED 17.10.2013 13:36


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Oulu region in Finland in the invitation year 2006. 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 14206 423 2.98 291 2.05 371 2.61 70 0.49 70 0.49 33 0.23 36 0.25 1 0.01
55-592 10555 206 1.95 138 1.31 185 1.75 36 0.34 39 0.37 8 0.08 31 0.29 - -
60-64 1344 22 1.64 18 1.34 19 1.41 3 0.22 10 0.74 - - 10 0.74 - -
65-69 86 2 2.33 1 1.16 2 2.33 1 1.16 - - - - - - - -
Total 26191 653 2.49 448 1.71 577 2.20 110 0.42 119 0.45 41 0.16 77 0.29 1 0.00

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).