A Cancer in the system [videorecording].

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PictureSeries: Disaster (Television program). Series 3 ; ; episode 4Publication details: [London] : BBC, 1999.Description: 1 videodisc (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s):

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616.99466 22

Narrator: John Nettles.Subject: Concerntrates on the cytology laboratory at Kent and Canterbury hospital responsible for examining smear tests to detect cervical cancer. An increasing number of cancers were not detected at an earlier stage because of poor training, lack of quality control, overworked and insufficiently qualified staff. When a biomeidcal scientist identified and reported the problem his warnings were ignored by the medical establishment until it reached crisis point and a major medical scandal.

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"A Stone City Production for the BBC."

Colour recording system PAL.

Narrator: John Nettles.

Concerntrates on the cytology laboratory at Kent and Canterbury hospital responsible for examining smear tests to detect cervical cancer. An increasing number of cancers were not detected at an earlier stage because of poor training, lack of quality control, overworked and insufficiently qualified staff. When a biomeidcal scientist identified and reported the problem his warnings were ignored by the medical establishment until it reached crisis point and a major medical scandal.

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