The author named Rebecca Skloot made a book about a woman named Henrietta Lacks. She expressed about an African America women named Henrietta Lacks whose cells were taken without permission. Mrs.Lacks than later died in 1951 of cervical cancer. The doctors then saw Henrietta’s cancer cells become the first immortal human cell line called HeLa cells.
Part 1: Life. Hela mother died by the tenth child so her father spilled the kids up. Hela stayed with her grandfather and later on married her cousin. Hela was diagnosed with Epidermoid carcinoma of the cervix Stage 1. She agreed to the doctors to run a few tests on her. The doctors collected to sample and we’re sure her cells would die. Hela mother died by the tenth child so her father spilled the kids up. Hela stayed with her grandfather and later on married her cousin. Hela was diagnosed with Epidermoid carcinoma of the cervix Stage 1. She agreed to the doctors to run a few tests on her. The doctors collected to sample and we’re sure her cells would die. Hela decided to get treatment for her cancer but she couldn’t go home without Day picking her up, she told her cousins she had cancer. The treatment made her skin look like tar. The author decided to meet the family and started to ask them questions.
Part 11: Death. When Dr.Gey learned of Henrietta’s death, he wanted to get cell samples from her organs. Since Mrs.Lacks died Dr.Gey needed Day’s permission to take cells from her body. In the beginning, Day refused permission, later on, Hopkins Hospital persuaded Day to give them permission. Mary(Dr.Gry’s assistant) helped to collect the samples from Henrietta’s corpse.. After the autopsy, Henrietta’s body was sent back to Clover where he family was. When it was time to bury Henrietta, a severe storm occurred. The family thought it was a sign from Mrs. Lacks. George Gey learned that he had pancreatic cancer. But the surgeons found that the cancer was inoperable and didn’t want to kill Gey by cutting into cancer.
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After Gey died, Howard Jones took another look at Henrietta’s biopsy and realized that her tumor was misdiagnosed. It was really a much more aggressive type of cervical cancer. Around this time, President Nixon declared a ‘war on cancer’ and threw a lot of money at cancer research for the following three years. Some scientists wanted to set the record straight concerning Henrietta’s identity because they felt she deserved recognition for her contribution to science. The long-standing errors concerning Henrietta’s name were suddenly corrected on a large scale and everybody now knew the name of HeLa’s ‘donor.’
Part 111: Immortality. Deborah really thought that Hsu was taking blood to find out if she had same cancer that killed her mother. She even called the operator at Hopkins to find out about her ‘cancer test results,’ but no one had any clue. And she was plagued by the thought that doctors at Hopkins still had some of her mother alive there and were doing terrible experiments on her. Although Deborah’s made peace with Hopkins, she still has to face Crownsville and the possible horrors faced by her older sister Elsie. She begins to get manic on Skloot, pretending to be very positive and bright about their discoveries. But she keeps the picture of Elsie open on the front seat of her car, and it agitates her.
Deborah doesn’t trust anyone with Henrietta’s medical record. She won’t let Skloot photocopy it, so she has to straighten out the mess of pages right there. She makes Skloot promise not to copy or type out the whole medical record. She continues to check on Skloot for the rest of the night to make sure she’s not doing it. Skloot realizes that Deborah’s breaking out in hives and welts. In the morning, Deborah’s on a manic high again.
References
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Smithsonian Magazine
- Henrietta Lacks | Biography & Facts | Britannica
- Immortal: The Legacy of Henrietta Lacks
- What is a cell? – Genetics Home Reference – NIH
- The Story of HeLa: How Cells From an African American Woman Revolutionized Medicine and Modern Science
- National Cancer Institute (NCI) – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
