American Experience: The Cancer Detectives
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American Experience: The Cancer Detectives
Language
eng
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videorecording
Main title
American Experience: The Cancer Detectives
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Summary
How one of the most impactful, lifesaving tests for women was created and popularized by a Greek immigrant and his wife, a famous Japanese-American illustrator who was detained in a WW2 internment camp, and a groundbreaking Black female surgeon. In the 1950's, survival rates from cancer of any kind were low. Damaging surgery and unsophisticated radiotherapy were the main treatments, assuming the disease was detected in time for anything to be done. Cervical cancer was often asymptomatic until it was well advanced, and by that time, it was often a death sentence
Target audience
adult
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live action
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