Finnish Cancer Registry: Breast cancer screening
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The data is available in the following Sandbox directory:
/finngen/library-red/finngen_R[RELEASE]/cancer_screening_1.0
Please refer to the readme file in the sandbox directory for full details of the available data.
Women 50-69 years of age are invited by personal letter to take part in breast cancer screening, or mammography, every two years.
More than 80% of the women invited to attend are screened. Fewer than 3% of participants are invited for further testing, i.e. ultrasound examination and biopsy, and of the individuals invited for further testing about 20% have breast cancer.
A total of about 5000 women in Finland each year are diagnosed with breast cancer. Of those, over half belong to the screening age group of 50-69. Some two-thirds of female breast cancers are detected by screening.
FinnGen breast cancer screening data consists of measurements of breast cancer screening (e.g. radiologists’ reports, biopsy, surgery), since 1992.