Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The cancer detectives / produced by Amanda Pollak ; written by Gene Tempest ; directed by Amanda Pollak, Gene Tempest ; an Insignia Films production for American Experience.

Publisher, Date:

[Arlington, Virginia] : PBS Distribution, [2024]

Description:

1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

wide screen

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

auditory captions

visual audioDescription

Summary:

How one of the most impactful, lifesaving tests for women was created and popularized by a Greek immigrant and his wife, a famous Japanese-American illustrator who was detained in a WW2 internment camp, and a groundbreaking Black female surgeon. In the 1950's, survival rates from cancer of any kind were low. Damaging surgery and unsophisticated radiotherapy were the main treatments, assuming the disease was detected in time for anything to be done. Cervical cancer was often asymptomatic until it was well advanced, and by that time, it was often a death sentence.

Subjects:

Cancer -- Research -- History.

Pap test -- History.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.

Other Author:

Pollak, Amanda, television director, television producer.

Tempest, Gene, television director, screenwriter.

Winslow, Andia, narrator.