UPDATED 17.10.2013 13:41


Organised breast cancer screening programme in the Helsinki and Uusimaa health care district in Finland in the invitation year 2008. 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 24201 761 3.14 595 2.46 733 3.03 68 0.28 149 0.62 17 0.07 131 0.54 1 0.00
55-59 17748 423 2.38 332 1.87 416 2.34 39 0.22 113 0.64 15 0.08 96 0.54 2 0.01
60-64 23413 609 2.60 472 2.02 593 2.53 62 0.26 227 0.97 20 0.09 205 0.88 2 0.01
65-69 8198 237 2.89 182 2.22 230 2.81 30 0.37 108 1.32 10 0.12 98 1.20 - -
Total 73560 2030 2.76 1581 2.15 1972 2.68 199 0.27 597 0.81 62 0.08 530 0.72 5 0.01

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