In 1913, George Papanicolaou arrived at Ellis Island from Greece; little did he know that within a decade he would accidentally discover one of the most effective cancer-screening tests in history. It took the medical community 20 years to adopt the simple Papanicolaou-or "Pap"-test, but once it did, the death rate associated with cervical cancer in the United States dropped more than 70 percent.

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