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Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Päijät-Häme health care district in Finland in the invitation year 2009. Numbers of women in the target population, and invited and screened and estimated coverage of the biannual programme by age groups.

Age group1 Target 2009 Biannual programme
  population
31.12.2008
Invited
n
Screened
n

% of invited
Invited in
2008 or 2009
Coverage
% of population
50-54 7611 4424 3842 86.8 7436 97.7
55-59 8675 3604 3104 86.1 8673 100.0
60-64 9146 4809 4127 85.8 7879 86.1
65-69 6323 2340 1981 84.7 3111 49.2
Total 31755 15177 13054 86.0 27099 85.3

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

Tabulation is based on registration from 14 municipalities:
ARTJÄRVI ASIKKALA HARTOLA HOLLOLA HEINOLA IITTI HÄMEENKOSKI
KÄRKÖLÄ LAHTI MYRSKYLÄ NASTOLA ORIMATTILA PADASJOKI SYSMÄ