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| Tytti SarkealaSummaryAffiliation: Finnish Cancer Registry Country: Finland Publications
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Process indicators from ten centres in the Finnish breast cancer screening programme from 1991 to 2000T Sarkeala
Finnish Cancer Registry, Liisankatu 21 B, Helsinki 00170
Eur J Cancer 40:2116-25. 2004..However, the variation in PPVs was wide, as has been seen for other European mammography programmes, indicating meaningful differences in diagnostic criteria and potential adverse effects...
Validity of process indicators of screening for breast cancer to predict mortality reductionT Sarkeala
Finnish Cancer Registry, Liisankatu 21 B, FIN 00170 Helsinki, Finland
J Med Screen 12:33-7. 2005..The specific criteria of the European Community on stage distribution, rates of screen-detected cancers by stage and detection rate to background incidence may need reconsideration...
Episode sensitivity in association with process indicators in the Finnish breast cancer screening programTytti Sarkeala
Finnish Cancer Registry, Helsinki, Finland
Int J Cancer 118:174-9. 2006..The sensitivity estimates were comparable with those from other European service screening programs. The variability in the episode sensitivity suggests potential for variations in the future screening outcome...
Organised mammography screening reduces breast cancer mortality: a cohort study from FinlandTytti Sarkeala
Finnish Cancer Registry, Helsinki, Finland
Int J Cancer 122:614-9. 2008..The relationship between the estimates of process and outcome of mammography is not yet straightforward: effectiveness and efficacy remain the best estimates for evaluating the success of mammography screening...
Breast cancer mortality with varying invitational policies in organised mammographyT Sarkeala
Finnish Cancer Registry, Helsinki, Finland
Br J Cancer 98:641-5. 2008..The study confirms a reduction by screening of breast cancer mortality in Finland. Uniform extension of invitations to 60-69 years of age would increase the number of prevented breast cancer deaths among the elderly...
Impacts of the Finnish service screening programme on breast cancer ratesAhti Anttila
Mass Screening Registry, Finnish Cancer Registry, Helsinki, Finland
BMC Public Health 8:38. 2008..The programme has been historically targeted to a rather narrow age band, mainly women of ages 50-59 years...
Effects of different phases of an invitational screening program on breast cancer incidenceJohanna Seppänen
Finnish Cancer Registry, Institute for Statistical and Epidemiological Cancer Research, Helsinki, Finland
Int J Cancer 119:920-4. 2006..2% if the program was continued up to age 59, and 28.0% if it continued up to age 69. Corresponding figures for nonlocalized cancers were decreases of 19.8% and 20.9%, respectively...
