Table 1. Number of screen-detected and interval cancers (by time of diagnosis) with their rates per 1,000 women and 10,000 mammograms and proportions of interval cancer subtypes among radiologically classified interval cancers.
Rates per 1,000 women | Rates per 10,000 Mammograms | Radiologic information | TI | FN | MS | OT | ||
N | N | N | N | N | N | |||
Screened women | 645,764 | |||||||
Mammograms | 1,508,584 | |||||||
Screen-detected cancer | 5,307 | 8.22 | 35.18 | 1,570 | ||||
In successive participations | 3,547 | 5.49 | 23.54 | 1,100 | ||||
Interval cancer | 1,653 | 2.57 | 10.99 | 1,012 | 489 | 235 | 174 | 114 |
Time of diagnosis* | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | ||
<12 months | 484 (29.3) | 0.75 | 3.21 | 273 (27.0) | 96 (19.6) | 76 (32.3) | 53 (30.5) | 48 (42.1) |
12–23 months | 992 (60.0) | 1.54 | 6.58 | 626 (61.9) | 322 (65.8) | 139 (59.1) | 105 (60.3) | 60 (52.6) |
> = 24 months | 177 (10.7) | 0.27 | 1.17 | 113 (11.2) | 71 (14.5) | 20 (8.5) | 16 (9.2) | 6 (5.3) |
*Time of diagnosis (in months) for interval cancer is the time between the last mammogram and diagnosis of cancer.
Abbreviations: TI: True interval, FN: False-negative, MS: Minimal-signs, OT: Occult tumours.