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Table 3 Accumulated results for a single cohort of women aged 50Ā years from 1996 to 2011. Detailed legend: Main results of a single cohort of women aged 50Ā years invited to participate in the Basque breast cancer screening programme for the first time in 1996

From: Evaluation of health benefits and harms of the breast cancer screening programme in the Basque Country using discrete event simulation

Ā 

Screened population

Non-screened population

Ā 

Mean

95Ā % CI

Mean

95Ā % CI

Number of women

50,000

(50,000, 50,000)

50,000

(50,000, 50,000)

Screening age

50-69 years old

Ā 

-

-

Participation rate

100Ā %

Ā 

0Ā %

(0.0Ā %, 0.0Ā %)

Number of mammograms

480,869

(480,150, 481,588)

0

(0, 0)

False positive results

3,151

(3,041, 3,260)

0

(0, 0)

False positive/women

6.3Ā %

(6.1Ā %, 6.5Ā %)

-

-

False positive/mammography

0.7Ā %

(0.6Ā %, 0.7Ā %)

-

-

Screen detected BC

1,776

(1,696, 1,856)

0

(0, 0)

Total detected BC

5,065

(4,926, 5,204)

5,001

(4,863, 5,139)

Difference in BC detection (Overdiagnosis)

64

(49, 79)

-

-

Increase in BC incidence

-

-

1.3Ā %

(1.0Ā %, 1.6Ā %)

Overdiagnosis/Screening-detected BC

3.6Ā %

(2.8Ā %, 4.4Ā %)

-

-

BC deaths

1,634

(1,556, 1,711)

1,880

(1,795, 1,964)

Difference in BC deaths

-

-

246

(215, 278)

Difference in BC deaths/BC deaths

-

-

13.1Ā %

(11.6Ā %, 14.6Ā %)

Life years/women

82.6

(82.5, 82.7)

82.5

(82.4, 82.6)

Life years gained/women

0.09

(0.08, 0.10)

-

-

Life years gained/screen detected women

2.5

(2.2, 2.8)

-

-

  1. BC Breast cancer, CI Confidence interval