UPDATED 17.10.2013 12:25


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Helsinki and Uusimaa health care district in Finland in the invitation year 2009. 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 9384 253 2.70 193 2.06 246 2.62 - - 45 0.48 5 0.05 40 0.43 - -
55-59 6315 135 2.14 89 1.41 132 2.09 - - 37 0.59 2 0.03 34 0.54 1 0.02
60-64 10578 238 2.25 165 1.56 235 2.22 1 0.01 96 0.91 6 0.06 88 0.83 2 0.02
65-69 5182 112 2.16 75 1.45 108 2.08 - - 41 0.79 1 0.02 39 0.75 1 0.02
Total 31459 738 2.35 522 1.66 721 2.29 1 0.00 219 0.70 14 0.04 201 0.64 4 0.01

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