UPDATED 12.06.2014 13:33


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 24436 774 3.17 544 2.23 755 3.09 4 0.02 128 0.52 21 0.09 103 0.42 4 0.02
55-59 16727 351 2.10 246 1.47 343 2.05 6 0.04 106 0.63 8 0.05 95 0.57 3 0.02
60-64 25441 512 2.01 391 1.54 502 1.97 3 0.01 173 0.68 12 0.05 158 0.62 3 0.01
65-69 14106 353 2.50 279 1.98 350 2.48 3 0.02 141 1.00 8 0.06 132 0.94 1 0.01
Total 80710 1990 2.47 1460 1.81 1950 2.42 16 0.02 548 0.68 49 0.06 488 0.60 11 0.01

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