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Organised breast cancer screening programme in Finland in the invitation year 1993. Numbers of women in the target population, and invited and screened, and estimated coverage of the biannual programme by age groups. Information registered from 282 municipalities (out of 456).

Age group1 Target 1993 Biannual programme
  population
31.12.1992
Invited
n
Screened
n

% of invited
Invited in
1992 or 1993
Coverage
% of population
50-542 73060 41265 36825 89.2 70342 96.3
55-592 69561 31846 28001 87.9 66000 94.9
60-64 69795 20595 14999 72.8 45532 65.2
65-69 71634 6300 4653 73.9 9568 13.4
Total 284050 100006 84478 84.5 191442 67.4

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).