Where To Stream American Experience Season 36 Episode 3
The Cancer Detectives
- Aired March 26, 2024
- 60 Min
- Rated 8.3
- Number 94 Of 108 Rated Episodes
The Trailblazers who landed the first blow against cancer. 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...