UPDATED 12.06.2014 12:37


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 15118 459 3.04 283 1.87 446 2.95 4 0.03 71 0.47 15 0.10 53 0.35 3 0.02
55-59 10611 220 2.07 128 1.21 215 2.03 6 0.06 70 0.66 5 0.05 63 0.59 2 0.02
60-64 15652 289 1.85 197 1.26 282 1.80 3 0.02 84 0.54 4 0.03 79 0.50 1 0.01
65-69 8227 180 2.19 120 1.46 180 2.19 3 0.04 72 0.88 6 0.07 66 0.80 - -
Total 49608 1148 2.31 728 1.47 1123 2.26 16 0.03 297 0.60 30 0.06 261 0.53 6 0.01

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