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Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Helsinki health care district 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.

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 23787 5141 4014 78.1 14678 61.7
55-592 16719 3938 3243 82.4 7594 45.4
60-64 13989 1 1 100.0 1 -
65-69 12208 4 4 100.0 4 -
Total 66703 9084 7262 79.9 22277 33.4

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 1 municipalities:
HELSINKI