UPDATED 17.10.2013 13:27


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Helsinki and Uusimaa health care district in Finland in the invitation year 2003. 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 25735 636 2.47 594 2.31 310 1.20 110 0.43 185 0.72 52 0.20 129 0.50 4 0.02
55-592 19381 372 1.92 348 1.80 208 1.07 84 0.43 148 0.76 25 0.13 112 0.58 11 0.06
60-64 6841 155 2.27 143 2.09 146 2.13 55 0.80 53 0.77 9 0.13 43 0.63 1 0.01
65-69 1831 56 3.06 49 2.68 50 2.73 21 1.15 23 1.26 3 0.16 19 1.04 1 0.05
Total 53788 1219 2.27 1134 2.11 714 1.33 270 0.50 409 0.76 89 0.17 303 0.56 17 0.03

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).