Selfless Sacrifice for Cervical Cancer

Selfless Sacrifice for Cervical Cancer

Andromachi Papanicolaou, the wife of the man who invented the Pap smear, volunteered to have her cervix sampled every day for 21 years to help with his research. Their findings went on to save the lives of millions of women by preventing the development of cervical cancer through early detection.

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