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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 29.
Published in final edited form as: J Natl Cancer Inst. 2003 Sep 17;95(18):1384–1393. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djg048

Table 1.

Features of the population screened and the mammography examination*

Population screened
Features of mammography examination
Study location (Ref.) % of women less than
50 years of age
No. of screening
mammograms
No. of views Year of
mammogram
Single vs. double
interpretation§
North America
British Columbia, Canada (21) N/A 11824 2 1988–1989 S
California (22) 61.7 29838 2 1985–1992 S
Idaho (23) N/A 25788 2 1989–1990 S
New Mexico (24) 43.7 126 466 2 1991–1993 S
North Carolina (25) 48 21716 2 1987 D
Texas (26) N/A 12860 2 1999–2000 S
Texas (27) N/A 64 459 1–2 1987 S
Virginia (28) N/A 21 141 2 1988–1991 S
Other countries
Australia (30) 0 N/A 2 1988–1990 D
Australia (31) 19.5 7163 2 1988–1989 D
Australia (29) 23.3 76106 2 1989–1993 D
Belgium (32) 35.2 9215 2 1992–1994 D
Belgium (33) 0 16017 1 1989–1992 D
Finland (34) N/A 1495 744 2 1987–1997 D
France (35) 0 40 535 1 1989–1992 D
France (36) 38.9 26026 2 1990–1992 D
Greece (37) 37 22258 2 1989–1990 D
Hong Kong (38) 74 8504 N/A 1993–1995 D
Ireland (40) 100 17903 2 1989–N/A S
Iceland (39) 46 5416 2 1987–1989 D
Italy (41) 0 1813 2 1990–1992 S
Italy (43) 0 N/A 2 1990–1993 S
Italy (42) 0 20149 2 1990–1992 S
Luxembourg (44) 0 16249 2 1994–1997 D
Spain (47) 21.5 48691 1–2 1990–1992 S/D
Sweden (49,52) 40.3 41761 1–2 1988–1990 S/D
The Netherlands (45) 0 416 020 2 1990–1992 D
Portugal (46) 23.3 27416 1 1990–1992 D
Spain (48) 27.6 78224 2 1992–N/A D
United Kingdom (50) 0 5699 1–2 1995 S
United Kingdom (51) 0 47975 N/A 1994–1999 N/A
United Kingdom (13) 6.6 26193 2 1987–1991 S/D
*

Please see supplemental data online (available at http://jncicancerspectrum.oupjournals.org/jnci/content/vol95/issue18/) for additional information on the abstraction process for specific articles. N/A = not available.

The total number of screening mammograms is equal to the total number of women in all studies but three: New Mexico (n = 87 443), Virginia (n = 17 547), and Spain (n = 49 631).

Reported year in which the mammograms were obtained.

§

S = Single interpretation for each mammogram; D = double interpretation for each mammogram; S/D = a combination of single and double interpretation.

Some data were obtained via personal communication with author.