Key Performance Index
This is general content for the Key Performance Index. The KPIs of the various monitoring studies are shown below automatically
General
4,109,943 invitations
The number of women and men who received an invitation for breast, cervical or bowel cancer screening in 2017.
2,606,457 clients
The number of women and men who participated in breast, cervical or bowel cancer screening in 2017.
913 staff
In the Netherlands 913 staff were involved in carrying out the three cancer screening programs that took place in 2017.
31,400 diagnoses
The average annual number of people diagnosed with cancer following the health screening program.
Breastcancer
1.3 million invitations
The number of women who received an invitation in 2018.
1.300.000 women received an invitation in 2018.
A lot of screenings are done every year.
1 million participants
In 2016, 1 million women participated in the breast cancer population screening. This is 77.3% of all women invited.
69 screening centres
There are 69 screening centres in the Netherlands; 59 mobile and 10 permanent. The aim of the mobile screening centres is to offer the screening as close to home as possible.
Referrals
Of every 1,000 women who participate in the study, 24.3 are referred for further research in the hospital (= 2.4%). Of these referred women, 6.8 women appear to have breast cancer. For 17.5 women, this is a different, innocent defect such as a cyst.
Cervical cancer
818,197 invitations
The number of women who received an invitation in 2017 for the cervical cancer screening program.
426,824 cliënten
The number of women who participated in the cervical cancer screening program in 2017 with a smear (397300 women) or self-sampling kit (29524 women).
9% HPV
Of the number of women who participated in the cervical cancer screening program in 2017, HPV was found in 9%.
700 diagnoses
The average number of women diagnosed with cervical cancer each year.
Bowel cancer
1,941,121 invitations
The number of men and women who received an invitation in 2017 for the colon cancer screening program.
1,411,998 clients
The number of men and women who participated in the colon cancer screening program in 2017.
71,632 redirects
The number of clients who were referred to the hospital in 2017 following their participation in the colon cancer screening program.
4,203x colon cancer found
A total of 4,203 colon cancers and 23,220 advanced adenomas were found among the participants invited in 2017.