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  2. Lacks was the unwitting source of these cells from a tumor biopsied during treatment for cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1951. These cells were then cultured by George Otto Gey, who created the cell line known as HeLa, which is still used for medical research. [7]

  3. Jan 24, 2024 · Physician Howard Jones quickly diagnosed her with cervical cancer. During her subsequent radiation treatments, doctors removed two cervical samples from Lacks without her knowledge.

  4. Aug 28, 2023 · Although Henrietta’s initial treatment led to the tumor shrinking, by September, her cancer had spread to many of her internal organs. Henrietta Lacks died, aged just 31, on October 4, 1951 ...

  5. Oct 9, 2020 · By: Rohini Nott. Published: 2020-10-09. Henrietta Lacks, born Loretta Pleasant, had terminal cervical cancer in 1951, and was diagnosed at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, where researchers collected and stored her cancer cells. Those cells went on to become the first immortal human cell line, which the researchers named HeLa.

  6. Apr 22, 2017 · By Steve Hendrix. April 22, 2017 at 7:00 a.m. EDT. A portrait of Henrietta Lacks, who died of cervical cancer in 1951 just before advances cut the disease’s death rate by almost 70 percent ...

  7. Oct 13, 2021 · 13 October 2021. Getty Images. Henrietta Lacks, a tobacco farmer, was buried in an unmarked grave in Virginia in 1951. The World Health Organization (WHO) has honoured an African-American woman...

  8. Apr 22, 2017 · Henrietta died in 1951 from a vicious case of cervical cancer, he told us. But before she died, a surgeon took samples of her tumor and put them in a petri dish.

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