UPDATED 17.10.2013 13:17


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Kuopio region in Finland in the invitation year 2000. 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 16341 749 4.58 747 4.57 583 3.57 179 1.10 112 0.69 36 0.22 75 0.46 1 0.01
55-592 7162 249 3.48 247 3.45 170 2.37 59 0.82 52 0.73 15 0.21 37 0.52 - -
60-64 1139 43 3.78 43 3.78 14 1.23 7 0.61 8 0.70 2 0.18 6 0.53 - -
65-69 400 15 3.75 15 3.75 11 2.75 4 1.00 2 0.50 - - 1 0.25 1 0.25
Total 25042 1056 4.22 1052 4.20 778 3.11 249 0.99 174 0.69 53 0.21 119 0.48 2 0.01

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).