{"id":1305932,"name":"Breast cancer screening coverage among women aged 50 to 69 years","unit":"%","createdAt":"2026-09-04T13:51:21.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-04T13:51:21.000Z","coverage":"","timespan":"2000-2025","datasetId":8148,"shortUnit":"%","columnOrder":0,"shortName":"breast_cancer_f","catalogPath":"grapher/health/2026-09-02/eurostat_cancer/eurostat_cancer#breast_cancer_f","descriptionShort":"Share of women aged 50 to 69 years who have been screened for breast cancer within the previous 2 years.","descriptionFromProducer":"The indicator covering breast cancer screening is defined in line with the 2003 Council Recommendation on cancer screening (2003/878/EC). The data presented are administrative data from breast cancer screening programs. The standard analysis is the proportion of women (eligible for screening) that have been screened. This is based on the number of women aged 50 to 69 years who had received a bilateral mammography within the 2 years prior to the reference date (or according to the specific screening frequency recommended in each country) as a share of women eligible for an organized screening program; in practice, some countries use different age ranges.","type":"float","datasetName":"Preventive cancer screenings - program data","updatePeriodDays":365,"datasetVersion":"2026-09-02","nonRedistributable":false,"display":{"unit":"%","shortUnit":"%","numDecimalPlaces":1},"schemaVersion":2,"processingLevel":"minor","presentation":{"attributionShort":"Eurostat","topicTagsLinks":["Cancer"]},"descriptionKey":"- Values come from the administrative records of national organized screening programs, not from population surveys. Screening done outside these programs, for example by general practitioners, is not counted.\n- Coverage is the share of people in a program's target population who were screened within the recommended interval. Several countries use age ranges or screening intervals that differ from the standard ones described here, and Eurostat flags such values as following a different definition.\n- Countries without an organized program for a given cancer, or that cannot compile program data, are not shown.\n- Countries report with a lag, so the most recent year usually has values for only some of them, and recent values can be revised in later releases.","dimensions":{"years":{"values":[{"id":2015},{"id":2016},{"id":2017},{"id":2018},{"id":2019},{"id":2020},{"id":2021},{"id":2022},{"id":2023},{"id":2024},{"id":2025},{"id":2001},{"id":2002},{"id":2003},{"id":2004},{"id":2005},{"id":2006},{"id":2007},{"id":2008},{"id":2009},{"id":2010},{"id":2011},{"id":2012},{"id":2013},{"id":2014},{"id":2000}]},"entities":{"values":[{"id":24,"name":"Austria","code":"AUT"},{"id":4,"name":"Belgium","code":"BEL"},{"id":39,"name":"Bulgaria","code":"BGR"},{"id":165,"name":"Croatia","code":"HRV"},{"id":163,"name":"Cyprus","code":"CYP"},{"id":162,"name":"Czechia","code":"CZE"},{"id":161,"name":"Denmark","code":"DNK"},{"id":156,"name":"Estonia","code":"EST"},{"id":155,"name":"Finland","code":"FIN"},{"id":3,"name":"France","code":"FRA"},{"id":6,"name":"Germany","code":"DEU"},{"id":149,"name":"Greece","code":"GRC"},{"id":138,"name":"Hungary","code":"HUN"},{"id":207,"name":"Iceland","code":"ISL"},{"id":2,"name":"Ireland","code":"IRL"},{"id":8,"name":"Italy","code":"ITA"},{"id":122,"name":"Latvia","code":"LVA"},{"id":209,"name":"Liechtenstein","code":"LIE"},{"id":119,"name":"Lithuania","code":"LTU"},{"id":210,"name":"Luxembourg","code":"LUX"},{"id":212,"name":"Malta","code":"MLT"},{"id":215,"name":"Montenegro","code":"MNE"},{"id":5,"name":"Netherlands","code":"NLD"},{"id":66,"name":"North Macedonia","code":"MKD"},{"id":102,"name":"Norway","code":"NOR"},{"id":11,"name":"Poland","code":"POL"},{"id":95,"name":"Portugal","code":"PRT"},{"id":92,"name":"Romania","code":"ROU"},{"id":88,"name":"Serbia","code":"SRB"},{"id":85,"name":"Slovakia","code":"SVK"},{"id":83,"name":"Slovenia","code":"SVN"},{"id":9,"name":"Spain","code":"ESP"},{"id":10,"name":"Sweden","code":"SWE"},{"id":70,"name":"Turkey","code":"TUR"},{"id":1,"name":"United Kingdom","code":"GBR"}]}},"origins":[{"id":21226,"title":"Preventive cancer screenings - program data","description":"Administrative data from national cancer screening programs in European countries, for three cancers: breast cancer (ICD-10 code C50), cervical cancer (C53), and colorectal cancer (C18-C21, malignant neoplasms of the colon, rectosigmoid junction, rectum, anus and anal canal).\n\nValues are the share of the target population (people eligible for the organized screening program) who were screened within the recommended interval. The indicators are defined in line with the 2003 Council Recommendation on cancer screening (2003/878/EC): women aged 50 to 69 years screened for breast cancer within the previous 2 years; women aged 20 to 69 years screened for cervical cancer within the previous 3 years; and people aged 50 to 74 years screened for colorectal cancer within the previous 2 years (or according to the screening frequency recommended in each country). In practice, several countries use different age ranges and screening intervals in their national programs, and some countries have no organized program for a given cancer.\n\nEurostat flags some observations as estimated, as having a definition that differs from the standard one, or as a break in the time series.","producer":"Eurostat","citationFull":"European Commission, Eurostat, Preventive cancer screenings - program data, https://doi.org/10.2908/HLTH_PS_PREV [2026-09-02]","urlMain":"https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/hlth_ps_prev/default/table?lang=en","urlDownload":"https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/sdmx/2.1/data/hlth_ps_prev/?format=SDMX-CSV&compressed=false","dateAccessed":"2026-09-02","datePublished":"2026-07-13","license":{"url":"https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/help/copyright-notice","name":"CC BY 4.0"}}]}