Georgios Papanikolaou
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title:
Georgios Papanikolaou
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Georgios Nikolaou Papanikolaou was a Greek physician, zoologist and microscopist who was a pioneer in cytopathology and early cancer detection, and inventor of the pap smear for detection of cervical cancer. After studying medicine in Greece and Germany, he emigrated in 1913 to the United States and was faculty at Cornell Medical College. He first reported that uterine cancer cells could be detected in vaginal smears in 1928, but his work was not widely recognized until the 1940s. An extensive t
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Greek pathologist (1883–1962)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios_Papanikolaou
date created:
2002-12-06T07:08:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T19:41:01Z
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