UPDATED 15.10.2013 14:16

Organised breast cancer screening programme in Finland in the invitation year 1997. Numbers of women in the target population, and invited and screened, and estimated coverage of the biannual programme by age groups. Information registered from 399 municipalities (out of 452).

Age group1 Target 1997 Biannual programme
  population
31.12.1996
Invited
n
Screened
n

% of invited
Invited in
1996 or 1997
Coverage
% of population
50-542 167416 95041 83092 87.4 156143 93.3
55-592 128109 54936 48173 87.7 120036 93.7
60-64 114414 15050 13169 87.5 34976 30.6
65-69 117058 8509 7137 83.9 15695 13.4
Total 526997 173536 151571 87.3 326850 62.0

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).