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Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Helsinki health care district in Finland in the invitation year 1994. Numbers of women in the target population, and invited and screened and estimated coverage of the biannual programme by age groups.

Age group1 Target 1994 Biannual programme
  population
31.12.1993
Invited
n
Screened
n

% of invited
Invited in
1993 or 1994
Coverage
% of population
50-542 16983 9385 7481 79.7 16874 99.4
55-592 14663 5640 4658 82.6 14541 99.2
60-64 13017 - - - - -
65-69 12808 - - - - -
Total 57471 15025 12139 80.8 31415 54.7

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).

Tabulation is based on registration from 1 municipalities:
HELSINKI