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Mary Papanicolaou, whose decades of daily smear tests laid the basis of cervical screening | ABC News
This ABC News article profiles Mary Papanicolaou, and gives thanks to her decades of dedicated swabbing and sampling that she and her pathologist husband George developed the cervical cancer screening method we know today as the Papanicolaou or Pap test.