February 19 marks the day every year when Greece and the global community celebrates the shining memory of Dr. George Papanicolaou, the Greek pioneer in cytopathology and early cancer detection, who invented the ”Papanicolaou Test,” also known as the “Pap smear.”
Born in 1883 in the town of Kymi on Euboea (Evia) Island, Papanicolaou was destined to become one of the most significant medicinal personalities of the twentieth century.