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Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Päijät-Häme health care district in Finland in the invitation year 2005. Numbers of women in the target population, and invited and screened and estimated coverage of the biannual programme by age groups.

Age group1 Target 2005 Biannual programme
  population
31.12.2004
Invited
n
Screened
n

% of invited
Invited in
2004 or 2005
Coverage
% of population
50-542 8341 4760 4193 88.1 8127 97.4
55-592 9365 3911 3409 87.2 9305 99.4
60-64 6848 709 634 89.4 1598 23.3
65-69 5951 154 138 89.6 187 3.1
Total 30505 9534 8374 87.8 19217 63.0

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 14 municipalities:
ARTJÄRVI ASIKKALA HARTOLA HOLLOLA HEINOLA IITTI HÄMEENKOSKI
KÄRKÖLÄ LAHTI MYRSKYLÄ NASTOLA ORIMATTILA PADASJOKI SYSMÄ