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The Cancer Detectives

Season 36 Episode 3

The untold story of the people who fought tirelessly to save women from cervical cancer.

The Cancer Detectives tells the untold story of the first-ever war on cancer and the coalition of people who fought tirelessly to save women from cervical cancer: a Greek immigrant, Dr. George Papanicolaou; 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.

AIR DATE 3/26/24

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