Breast cancer screening as public health policy in Finland.

A nationwide mammographic screening for breast cancer was started in Finland in 1987. During the first 2 years of the organised screening programme, 126,000 women were invited. Most of them (103,000) belonged to the birth year cohort in the 50-59 years' age groups. Among the 112,000 screenees,...

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Autores principales: Hakama, M., Elovainio, L., Kajantie, R., Louhivuori, K.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 1991
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1977451/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1931626
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author Hakama, M.
Elovainio, L.
Kajantie, R.
Louhivuori, K.
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Elovainio, L.
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description A nationwide mammographic screening for breast cancer was started in Finland in 1987. During the first 2 years of the organised screening programme, 126,000 women were invited. Most of them (103,000) belonged to the birth year cohort in the 50-59 years' age groups. Among the 112,000 screenees, 418 cancers (0.4%) were found. Specificity of the test was about 96%. The screening prevalence was 2.4 times the annual incidence and a minimum estimate for the detection rate among those invited was 1.6 times that among those not invited. These estimates indicate a relatively low test and programme sensitivity. The final effectiveness of a public health policy cannot be predicted on the basis of limited preventive trials, and there is need to evaluate also a public health policy by experimental means.
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spelling pubmed-19774512009-09-10 Breast cancer screening as public health policy in Finland. Hakama, M. Elovainio, L. Kajantie, R. Louhivuori, K. Br J Cancer Research Article A nationwide mammographic screening for breast cancer was started in Finland in 1987. During the first 2 years of the organised screening programme, 126,000 women were invited. Most of them (103,000) belonged to the birth year cohort in the 50-59 years' age groups. Among the 112,000 screenees, 418 cancers (0.4%) were found. Specificity of the test was about 96%. The screening prevalence was 2.4 times the annual incidence and a minimum estimate for the detection rate among those invited was 1.6 times that among those not invited. These estimates indicate a relatively low test and programme sensitivity. The final effectiveness of a public health policy cannot be predicted on the basis of limited preventive trials, and there is need to evaluate also a public health policy by experimental means. Nature Publishing Group 1991-11 /pmc/articles/PMC1977451/ /pubmed/1931626 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Hakama, M.
Elovainio, L.
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Louhivuori, K.
Breast cancer screening as public health policy in Finland.
title Breast cancer screening as public health policy in Finland.
title_full Breast cancer screening as public health policy in Finland.
title_fullStr Breast cancer screening as public health policy in Finland.
title_full_unstemmed Breast cancer screening as public health policy in Finland.
title_short Breast cancer screening as public health policy in Finland.
title_sort breast cancer screening as public health policy in finland.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1931626
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