UPDATED 12.06.2014 13:33


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Pohjois-Savo health care district in Finland in the invitation year 2012. 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 4412 197 4.47 108 2.45 177 4.01 1 0.02 25 0.57 11 0.25 14 0.32 - -
55-59 3309 87 2.63 40 1.21 74 2.24 2 0.06 14 0.42 3 0.09 10 0.30 1 0.03
60-64 4937 126 2.55 66 1.34 119 2.41 1 0.02 36 0.73 6 0.12 30 0.61 - -
65-69 1490 33 2.21 10 0.67 31 2.08 1 0.07 11 0.74 3 0.20 7 0.47 1 0.07
Total 14148 443 3.13 224 1.58 401 2.83 5 0.04 86 0.61 23 0.16 61 0.43 2 0.01

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