Henrietta Lacks was a Virginia-born woman and great-great granddaughter of a slave. She was a wife and a mother of five, but unfortunately lost her life to cervical cancer at the age of 31. While being treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital before her death, a sample of her cervical cells were taken without her knowledge. At that time, it was customary for cells taken outside the body to die quickly, so it was a surprise to the doctors that observed the samples to see Lacks’ cells not only surviving outside of her body, but multiplying at rapid rates.
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March 2019
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