Word: papanicolaou
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...George Papanicolaou of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center for achievements in cancer research-the "smear tests" (TIME...
...find the distinctive cells which have been sloughed off by the cancer. But the results proved accurate in only one out of three cases, because nearly all the loose cancer cells went on down the intestinal tract or were destroyed by the stomach's digestive juices. Then Dr. Papanicolaou tried a device invented by Dr. Frederick G. Panico: a sausage-sized balloon with about 250 pieces of braided silk attached. The patient swallowed the balloon and about two feet of rubber tube with it. Once inside the stomach, the balloon was inflated and worked around for an hour...
...Journal of the American Medical Association last week, Dr. George N. Papanicolaou reported that he and two associates at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center had worked out a new technique for diagnosing stomach cancer...