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The Cancer Detectives

80% | Mar 26, 2024
Documentary

The story of how the life-saving cervical cancer test became an ordinary part of women’s lives is as unusual and remarkable as the coalition of people who ultimately made it possible: a Greek immigrant, Dr. George Papanicolau; his intrepid wife, Mary; Japanese-born artist Hashime Murayama; Dr. Helen Dickens, an African American OBGYN in Philadelphia; and an entirely new class of female scientists known as cyto-screeners. But the test was just the beginning. Once the test proved effective, the campaign to make pap smears available to millions of women required nothing short of a total national mobilization. The Cancer Detectives tells the untold story of the first-ever war on cancer and the people who fought tirelessly to save women from what was once the number one cancer killer of women.

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Andia Winslow
Narrator

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Amanda Pollak
Director
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Gene Tempest
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Sandra Christie
Editor
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Dudu Aram
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Amanda Pollak
Producer
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Gene Tempest
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Katie McHale
Associate Producer
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Victor Artesona
Assistant Editor
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Alisa Placas Frutman
Animation
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Jason Conradt
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Andrew Young
Director of Photography
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Susan Bellows
Executive Producer

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