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. 2014 Oct 21;9(10):e110207. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110207

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.