UPDATED 15.10.2013 14:21

Organised breast cancer screening programme in Finland in the invitation year 1999. Numbers of women in the target population, and invited and screened, and estimated coverage of the biannual programme by age groups. Information registered from 409 municipalities (out of 452).

Age group1 Target 1999 Biannual programme
  population
31.12.1998
Invited
n
Screened
n

% of invited
Invited in
1998 or 1999
Coverage
% of population
50-542 189186 100482 88337 87.9 175641 92.8
55-592 129745 62391 55319 88.7 116668 89.9
60-64 122077 12630 9623 76.2 45687 37.4
65-69 111443 6260 4556 72.8 13931 12.5
Total 552451 181763 157835 86.8 351927 63.7

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).