In significant pain and without improvement, Lacks returned to Johns Hopkins Hospital on August 8 demanding admission and remained there until her death on October 4 at the age of 31. These cells would eventually become the HeLa immortal cell line.
George Otto Gey obtained another sample of her tumor. During her second visit eight days later, Dr. Prior to the treatment for the carcinoma, cells from the tumor were removed for research purposes without her knowledge or permission, which was standard procedure at that time. The appearance of the tumor was unlike anything the examining gynecologist, Dr. After a biopsy, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. Lacks visited Johns Hopkins because of a painful “knot” in her cervix and bloody vaginal discharge. The basic facts about the story of Henrietta Lacks are well documented.
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Skloot’s book takes the reader on an incredible journey from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to the research laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells, to Henrietta’s small, dying town of Clover, Virginia, to east Baltimore, where Henrietta’s children and grandchildren live. Members of the Lacks family were kept in the dark about the existence of the tissue line, and when its existence was revealed in a 1976 Rolling Stone article by Michael Rogers, family members were confused about how Henrietta’s cells could have been taken without consent and how they could still be alive 25 years after her death. Suspicions fueled by racial issues prevalent in the South at the time were compounded by issues of class and education. Henrietta’s husband, David Lacks, was told little following her death. In her 2010 book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot documents the histories of both the cell line-called the HeLa cell line after the first two letters of her first and last names to protect her identity-and the Lacks family.
These “immortal” cells remain “alive,” 60 years after her death, revolutionizing medical research. Henrietta Lacks (August 18, 1920, to October 4, 1951) was a poor Southern African-American tobacco farmer whose cancerous cervical tumor was the source of cells George Otto Gey at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland, cultured.
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