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Medical History - Women's Cancers 04 Jul 2008
Exploring the history of campaigns surrounding women's cancers

Of all the kinds of cancer people develop it’s often said that breast cancer gets the most publicity. But it turns out campaigns surrounding the cancers women have are nothing new. The drastic nature of the early Wertheim hysterectomy, used to treat cervical cancer, led physicians to focus on early detection. In the next of our series on medical history Claudia Hammond focuses on one of 12 public health paintings by Richard Tennant Cooper, commissioned by Sir Henry Wellcome who founded the Wellcome historical medical museum back in the early 20th. At the Wellcome Library in London Claudia joined their archivist Dr Lesley Hall and the medical historian Ornella Moscucci.
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