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Probably no man has done more to save lives threatened by cancer than Greek-born Dr. George N. Papanicolaou. 76, of Cornell University Medical College, who devised a test for cancer of the uterus and cervix by smearing mucous secretion on a glass slide and examining the stained cells under a microscope. The "Pap smear" is nc' done routinely in hundreds of U.S. laboratories, for an estimated total of 3.000,000 tests a year-most of them for healthy women wisely having regular examinations. Vast ingenuity has gone into extensions of the Pap test: aerosols to make a smoker...
Oddly, the two most familiar of Dr. Speert's great names are among the earliest and latest: Gabriele Falloppio (circa 1523-62), who vividly described the oviduct as uteri tuba, or trumpet of the uterus, and George Nicholas Papanicolaou, 75, whose technique for detecting early cancer by smearing vaginal secretions on glass slides for microscopic study of cells has become, since 1943, standard procedure in thousands of doctors' offices...
...lung cancer, which will not show up in chest X ray during its earlier stages. When it does show, it is often too late. The trick has been to get cells from lung secretions to make "Papanicoulaou smears" like those made famous in detecting cancer of the cervix and uterus...
Other common cancers, which have not been associated with smoking or drinking habits, e.g., those of the breast, prostate, stomach, colon, rectum and uterus, as well as leukemia, occurred at just about the same rates in both Adventist and non-Adventist patients. This uniformity led Drs. Wynder and Lemon to conclude that heavy cigarette smoking and hard drinking are indeed major factors in lung or mouth cancer and in hastening death from atherosclerosis (hardening) of the coronary arteries. "We propose," they said, "that smoking, though not causing atherosclerosis as such, adds to the already damaging effect of atherosclerosis upon...
...subcontracts for the gruesome gewgaws to a few ex-patients, now makes more money peddling the trinkets than he does as a radiologist. Some of his bestselling designs: a coiled white intestinal tract with a bright red, about-to-burst appendix; gastric resection with or without ulcer; a uterus and Fallopian tubes with cancer of the cervix (available, like the rest of the doodads, as earrings) ; a Daliesque assortment of unblinking, bloodshot eyes...