Cancer Smear

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

93

Date Released

1971

Length of issue (in feet)

436

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Infra-Red Binoculars
2. 2Cancer Smear
3. 3Foiler Yacht
4. 4Microteaching

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: Cancer at the neck of the womb can be easily cured at the early stages, but mass screening of women by the smear test is very time-consuming and expensive. A prototype computer system for scanning the smears is speeding up the screening process, and could be useful throughout the whole field of cancer diagnosis.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Women; Science and technology; Computers and computing

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 49 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/93

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Cutter

Fred Goodland

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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Notes

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