UPDATED 12.06.2014 11:45


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Helsinki and Uusimaa health care district in Finland in the invitation year 2012. 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 %
50-54 9318 315 3.38 261 2.80 309 3.32 - - 57 0.61 6 0.06 50 0.54 1 0.01
55-59 6116 131 2.14 118 1.93 128 2.09 - - 36 0.59 3 0.05 32 0.52 1 0.02
60-64 9789 223 2.28 194 1.98 220 2.25 - - 89 0.91 8 0.08 79 0.81 2 0.02
65-69 5879 173 2.94 159 2.70 170 2.89 - - 69 1.17 2 0.03 66 1.12 1 0.02
Total 31102 842 2.71 732 2.35 827 2.66 0 0.00 251 0.81 19 0.06 227 0.73 5 0.02

1 Age groups are defined on the basis of the invitation and the birth year.