Eurostat data show wide gaps in EU breast-cancer screening

A comparison published by Eurostat on 2 October put the share of eligible women aged 50–69 who had received mammography in the previous two years at 82.1% in Denmark, 82.0% in Sweden and 81.6% in Finland. Hungary was at the lower end, at 27.2%. Sweden's national programme covers a different age range, 40–74.

Against 2019, rates rose in nine EU countries with available data, led by a 12.5 percentage-point increase in Slovakia. Rates were unchanged in Sweden and Finland and fell in 11 other countries; Malta recorded the largest decline, 21.8 percentage points. The figures are administrative data from national screening programmes. Bulgaria and Romania have no national programme, and Greece has no rate data, so country coverage is incomplete. The rates measure programme-based screening, not cancer outcomes.