The Cancer Detectives

The Cancer Detectives (2024)

The Trailblazers Who Landed the First Blow Against Cancer

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2024-03-26
  • User Rating: 8/10 from 1 ratings
  • Runtime: 0h 53min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: PBS
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Directors: Amanda Pollak, Gene Tempest.
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Summary

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

    as Narrator
Directing Amanda Pollak Director
Directing Gene Tempest Director
Editing Sandra Christie Editor
Visual Effects Alisa Placas Frutman Animation
Writing Gene Tempest Writer
Production Cameo George Executive Producer
Production Katie McHale Associate Producer
Production Susan Bellows Executive Producer
Visual Effects Jason Conradt Animation
Sound Dudu Aram Music
Camera Andrew Young Director of Photography
Production Amanda Pollak Producer
Editing Victor Artesona Assistant Editor
Production James Hauke Production Assistant

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