UPDATED 17.10.2013 13:21


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Helsinki region in Finland in the invitation year 2001. 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 33401 665 1.99 631 1.89 578 1.73 234 0.70 191 0.57 53 0.16 137 0.41 1 0.00
55-592 20102 330 1.64 314 1.56 297 1.48 114 0.57 118 0.59 18 0.09 100 0.50 - -
60-64 3281 58 1.77 53 1.62 49 1.49 21 0.64 17 0.52 1 0.03 16 0.49 - -
65-69 957 14 1.46 14 1.46 14 1.46 6 0.63 5 0.52 - - 5 0.52 - -
Total 57741 1067 1.85 1012 1.75 938 1.62 375 0.65 331 0.57 72 0.12 258 0.45 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).