UPDATED 20.11.2013 14:05


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Etelä-Pohjanmaa health care district in Finland in the invitation year 2004. 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 3938 151 3.83 100 2.54 148 3.76 18 0.46 22 0.56 3 0.08 19 0.48 - -
55-592 2790 53 1.90 37 1.33 47 1.68 5 0.18 10 0.36 - - 10 0.36 - -
60-64 1244 41 3.30 33 2.65 39 3.14 4 0.32 7 0.56 1 0.08 6 0.48 - -
65-69 645 16 2.48 13 2.02 15 2.33 2 0.31 3 0.47 1 0.16 2 0.31 - -
Total 8617 261 3.03 183 2.12 249 2.89 29 0.34 42 0.49 5 0.06 37 0.43 0 0.00

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).