Edith E. Sproul, MD — diagnostic and therapeutic services (pathology)
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Specializing in cancer pathology, Dr. Edith Sproul (1907–1999) was the first to describe the relationship between thrombophlebitis and pancreatic cancer, and the first pathologist to describe cell changes associated with the early stages of cancer of the prostate. Her work with George Papanicolou at Cornell University Medical School led to the development of the pap smear test for cervical cancer, and she and Charles Gutman of Mount Sinai, New York, were co-discoverers of the association between prostatic cancer and the enzyme acid phosphatase.
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