UPDATED 17.10.2013 13:36


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Helsinki and Uusimaa health care district in Finland in the invitation year 2006. 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 %
50-542 25855 601 2.32 531 2.05 571 2.21 97 0.38 150 0.58 17 0.07 131 0.51 2 0.01
55-592 19395 372 1.92 352 1.81 328 1.69 56 0.29 118 0.61 15 0.08 102 0.53 1 0.01
60-64 8677 205 2.36 174 2.01 166 1.91 16 0.18 65 0.75 7 0.08 56 0.65 2 0.02
65-69 4436 121 2.73 119 2.68 103 2.32 24 0.54 48 1.08 3 0.07 45 1.01 - -
Total 58363 1299 2.23 1176 2.01 1168 2.00 193 0.33 381 0.65 42 0.07 334 0.57 5 0.01

1 Age groups are defined on the basis of the invitation and the birth year.
2 Age groups targeted in the Decree of Public Health (1992).