Rebecca West

You would never think an innocent five year girl could be killed just by growing. I was that little five year old, and yes this story is true. I was over at my grandparents house when they realized a slight bump in my neck. They asked me about it, but I had never really seemed to notice it. My grandparents told my parents. My parents weren’t too worried, they said they would keep an eye on it. Over the course of time ,I was doing a lot of growing. I never really could tell when I was growing,…

It all started when a little girl named Kate was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive stage of Leukemia. Kate’s parents decided to have another child in hopes that their next child could be the perfect match to give Kate a bone marrow transplant. There addition to their family was a little girl named Anna. Anna went through numerous surgical procedures to help her older sister beat this form of Leukemia. Through many attempt to try and save her sister’s life, they realize there is only hope. The…

In the story “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” a woman is known for her immortal cells not for herself. Henrietta Lacks was a woman who went into the hospital because she had a knot on her womb. The knot was a tumor and a biopsy was done and it proved it was cancer. While having her procedures the doctor took a piece of the knot and sent it to Dr. George Gey. Dr. Gey cultured her cells and they became fast growing and healthy. These cells would start new scientific advances that not many…

The Immortal Live of Henrietta Lacks is a book by Rebecca Skloot is about Henrietta an African American woman who develops cervical cancer as a result of her cancerous cells which will have a major impact in medicine and science. The book is base on the hundreds of interviews Skloot did to Henrietta’s friends and families. Although her cancerous cells did help scientists with the development of treatment. It also raises a hot topic if it was right for them to use them she they have as the family…

James Tanner The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Timeline 1952 First immortal cells cultured. Collected from Henrietta's cervix. Named HeLa cells. Henrietta dies from cervical cancer. HeLa used to grow massive amount of cells. Prompt #5 Create a timeline that begins with the removal of Henrietta"s tissuse sample and traces the scientific and medical breakthroughs that have been made possible as a result of HeLa cells. Explain how HeLa cells were used in each situation 1953 1954 HeLa…

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks will further the discussion formed with Days of Gold and consolidate students’ understanding of greed as a positive quality. This nonfiction story will also shift our discussion of money motivated greed to a new topic: personal status as a motive of greed. An important idea in the story is benevolent deception and the belief that doctors could legally keep many things secret from their patients especially if the patients were poor or a minority. Students will…

During my first semester at ECC, my composition class studied the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” by Rebecca Skloot. The book was written based on a true story about Henrietta Lacks and the unethical treatment and research done on her by Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951. Henrietta Lacks received radiation treatments for cancer, which charred the exterior of her body and eventually spread the disease throughout her body even more. At first the treatment worked as it dissipated the…

Henrietta Lacks (1920-1951), an unwitting source of first known human immortal cell line or HeLa cell line, and served a vital role in development of the polio vaccine, uncovered secrets of cancers, viruses, in vitro fertilization, and more. She being a poor and African-American had limited opportunities for her cancerous tumor treatment. Yet, the cells that were taken without her consent are still alive today in many biological companies throughout the world and contributed for all types of…

Ethical Mistakes Involving Henrietta Lacks Henrietta Lacks will continuously be used to further medical research. When she died in 1951, her cells were isolated creating a cell line called HeLa cells. After Lacks’ death, her cells were cloned and studied without her consent. The cells obtained from her were special because they were unusually strong cancer cells which could grow rapidly and indefinitely in the right medium (“Quick Guide to HeLa Cells,” n.d.). HeLa cells are not bound by the…

affected her life greatly. Contrary to popular beliefs, Henrietta Lack’s race had little effect on her cells and the way she was treated in the hospital, in fact, she was given the best treatment that was available at the time. In an interview, Rebecca Skloot…