1955 - Founded program that encouraged doctors to perform Pap smears to test for cervical cancer.
Women's Health; Public Health
About This Innovation
* Dickens worked to provide pap tests for Black women in Philadelphia through clinics and workshops at Black churches. * In later years, Dickens even provided free pap tests out of a mobile unit, parking an American Cancer Society van in church parking lots.
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Women's Health; Public Health
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