According to the immortal life of Henrietta lacks page 35-66. This chapter talk about “the birth of Hela”. In this part we learn about the incredible scientific opportunities that HeLa cells opened for researchers. Henrietta Lacks was a poor African American woman who was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1951 at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The surgeon on duty, Dr. Lawrence Wharton Jr. was preparing to insert a tube with radium into Henrietta’s cervix to treat her cancer. While she was unconscious, Dr. Wharton cut out two dime-size chunks from her cervis and sent them to Dr. George Gey, who was trying to figure out how to grow cells in the laboratory, outside of an organism.
Although Dr. Gey had tried and failed at this many times, for some unknown reason Henrietta’s cells would be different from all of the others, and would in fact thrive in a laboratory culture dish. Although she never consented to this tissue donation she provided the material that initiated the field of tumor cell culture.
HeLa cells were used to mass produce a polio vaccine to develop reliable cell culture and cell storage methods, to develop clonal cell lines, to visualize human chromosomes, and to test new drug candidate, among many other breakthroughs.
In early June, Henrietta told her Doctors a few times that she thought the cancer was spreading. On august 8, New tumors seemed to appear daily. Before she died, George told to her colleague Aurelian to say to Henrietta that her cells will make her immortal and also that her cells would help save countless peoples. She told him she was glad her pain would come to some good for someone.’
Impression:
I think Henrietta lacks was a great women, when doctor told her that they would used her cells to save countless peoples, she not be mind and she told him she was glad her pain would come to some good for someone.
Question:
Did someone tell her families’ truth?
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