Mohini Vadalia
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Henrietta Lacks, the wife and cousin of David Lacks, and a mother of 5, Lawrence, Elsie, David Jr.(Sonny), Deborah, and Joe. She was a poor, black woman who died of cervical cancer in 1951. The hospital where she was receiving her treatments, her doctor had withdrawn samples of her cancer cells without her knowledge and permission. These cells began reproducing endlessly. Even after Henrietta had died, her cells were still alive. They were transported all over the world and became known as the HeLa cells. The HeLa cells led to improvements in medicine such as vacines for polio and HPV and development of a clause that claimed that any personnel of a hospital has to have permission from the patient or the relatives of the patient to take any cells, blood, or tissue from the patient. While private labs were making millions off of Henrietta's cells, her relatives knew nothing of them for 20 years and they never received any money.
Henrietta Lacks is a remarkable person whose cells have completely changed the path of science and medicine. She was born on August 20,1920. During her childhood, Henrietta worked from sunup to sundown in a tobacco field. When Henrietta was 4 years old, her mother died. After that, her father sent all his ten kids to live with different relatives …show more content…
They shared the same since they were young. As a result, at the age of fourteen, Henrietta had her first child, Lawrence. Next, their second child, Elsie. Afterward, Henrietta and David got married and had the rest of their three children, David Jr, (Sonny), Deborah, and Joe. Then, the whole family moved to Baltimore, Maryland for them to get a chance for a better life. When Henrietta was thirty, she felt a "knot" in her lower torso. She went for a check up and discovered that she had cervical cancer. About a year later, after a lot of pain and suffering, Henrietta died on October 4,
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Henrietta Lacks, the wife and cousin of David Lacks, and a mother of 5, Lawrence, Elsie, David Jr.(Sonny), Deborah, and Joe. She was a poor, black woman who died of cervical cancer in 1951. The hospital where she was receiving her treatments, her doctor had withdrawn samples of her cancer cells without her knowledge and permission. These cells began reproducing endlessly. Even after Henrietta had died, her cells were still alive. They were transported all over the world and became known as the HeLa cells. The HeLa cells led to improvements in medicine such as vacines for polio and HPV and development of a clause that claimed that any personnel of a hospital has to have permission from the patient or the relatives of the patient to take any cells, blood, or tissue from the patient. While private labs were making millions off of Henrietta's cells, her relatives knew nothing of them for 20 years and they never received any money.
Henrietta Lacks is a remarkable person whose cells have completely changed the path of science and medicine. She was born on August 20,1920. During her childhood, Henrietta worked from sunup to sundown in a tobacco field. When Henrietta was 4 years old, her mother died. After that, her father sent all his ten kids to live with different relatives …show more content…
They shared the same since they were young. As a result, at the age of fourteen, Henrietta had her first child, Lawrence. Next, their second child, Elsie. Afterward, Henrietta and David got married and had the rest of their three children, David Jr, (Sonny), Deborah, and Joe. Then, the whole family moved to Baltimore, Maryland for them to get a chance for a better life. When Henrietta was thirty, she felt a "knot" in her lower torso. She went for a check up and discovered that she had cervical cancer. About a year later, after a lot of pain and suffering, Henrietta died on October 4,