Who was Henrietta Lacks? The life of the woman whose 'immortal' cells changed modern medicine forever
Henrietta Lacks. Reuters Henrietta Lacks changed modern medicine when doctors took her cells without her consent in 1951. Lacks began feeling 'knots' in her stomach in 1950, and was diagnosed with cervical cancer by Johns Hopkins doctors. Her family was not compensated by the companies selling her…
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