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The Pap Test : A Cure for the Crisis
About this film
"Developed in the 1940s by Dr. George Papanicolaou, the Pap exam has become a sage, painless and economical method of detecting the early signs of cervical cancer. Forty-five thousand women develop cervical cancer every year, and approximately 7,000 of these women die of the disease. However, thousands of lives can be saved if the cancer is detected early with a Pap exam, provided that samples are taken, prepared and interpreted correctly. Unfortunately, according to a recent series of Pulitzer Prize-winning articles published by The Wall Street Journal , 20 to 40 percent of the Pap exams administered each year do not detect the cell abnormalities that reveal cervical cancer."The Pap Test: A Cure for the Crisis takes an in-depth look at why such failures occur; provides advice to women to ensure that their Pap smear is performed and diagnosed properly; encourages women to have a regular Pap examination; and lists questions women might ask their doctors about their Pap exam, including test sampling techniques and laboratory testing procedures. "Featured in the half-hour documentary are pathologists, OB-GYN physicians, cytotechnologists and government representatives who discuss curr…
Directors & creators
WTVI (Television station : Charlotte, N.C.)
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Pap test, cervical cancer, George Papanicolaou, Elizabeth Dole, Eugenia D'Ambrosio, Sandra Rosing, W. Bud Wentz, Gwen Boyd, Jared Schwartz, Shirley Greening, College of American Pathologists, American Cancer Society, The Wall Street Journal, gynecology, women's health, medical diagnostics, pathology, cytotechnology
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