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Chapter #1 Henrietta's Treatment

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In this chapter 1, Hopkins shows us that he served at this hospital where Henrietta was treated and took cancer cells from her without her consent to test them and see what was happening to her without her consent.

I find it sad how in 1951 there were so many problems of racism in society and how people of this race struggled to simply go to the doctor because they were treated very badly and judged for being of this colored race. how they were separated from white people and how they could not live together in the same places.

Chapter #2 Henrietta's Life

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1.When doctors took her damaged cells without her permission to examine them.

2.When Dr. George, after several studies of Henrietta's cells and never having seen any identical ones, decided to name them HeLa.

3.Henrietta's family has fought for justice against companies that profit from HeLa cells without permission, and have resorted to lawsuits and legal proceedings.

Chapter #3 Invasive and Non-invasive Cancers

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Noninvasive breast cancer is found within the milk ducts or lobules. Invasive breast cancer means the cancer has spread beyond the ducts or lobules to other surrounding areas of the body.

The difference is important because in situ cancer is usually easier to treat and has a better prognosis than invasive cancer. Henrietta Lacks's cancer was invasive, which affected her treatment and survival.

Dr. Gey obtained Henrietta Lacks' cells from a biopsy taken during her treatment for cervical cancer.

chapter #4 The Birth of Hela

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Margaret Gey, a nurse who played an important role in the laboratory by implementing sterility protocols for cell culture, helped ensure the viability and longevity of cell cultures, particularly the HeLa cell line.

Mary Kubicek's role in the lab was to prepare Henrietta Lacks's cells. She worked with Dr. George Gey, establishing what would become the first immortal human cell line: HeLa cells. Her work was required to establish the environment for these cells to successfully reproduce outside the body.

Chapter #5 Henrietta and Elsie

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1. HeLa cells are the first human cells to be immortalized and are still widely used in medical research.

2.She made her famous rice pudding and slow cooked.

3.She was a sturdy woman with a square jaw, thick hips, short, muscular legs and hands rough from tabaco.

4.She was a person that could really make the good things come out of you.

1.She became the chief aeronautical engineer production facility.

2.She was a prominent advocate for women's rights and served as a commissioner on the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada.

3.the first woman to earn her master's degree in aeronautical engineering.

4.She had epilepsy and intellectual disabilities. She was eventually institutionalized.

Chapter#33 The Hospital for the Negro Insane: Elsie

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Elsie's care was led by Leeds General Children's Hospital, She also received 28 sessions of radiotherapy and then howed disease progression to her lungs, prompting chemotherapy and a later scan showing a reduction in lung nodules, as detailed.

Chapter #7 Dr. Carrell

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He gave viewers a basic overview of cell structure and cancer using diagrams and a long wooden pointer, He They were used and shared without her consent or that of any family member. At the time, permission to use cells for research purposes was neither required nor sought. At the time, permission was neither required, nor sought, for cells to be used for research. He sent shipments of HeLa cells with no researches in Texas, India, New York, Amsterdam and many places between.

Chapter #11 Henrietta’s Death

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In September, Henrietta's body was almost entirely taken over by tumors. They'd grown on her diaphragm, her bladder and her lungs. She got one blood transfusion after another because her kidneys could no longer filter the toxins from her blood. And based on all this that happened, I think it is a bad and very painful death since he suffers a lot and goes through a very painful process.

Chapter #15 Henrietta’s Children

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Joe was barely a year old, and the tuberculosis nearly killed him, Joe into the meanest, angriest child any lacks had ever knownn, and the family started saying what happened to his brain.

Lawrence was 24 years old and they had their first child that the same time of Deborah and her brothers, Lawrence came home from the military in 1953 and moved into a house of his own.

Deborah was ten years old, she tried to tell Day when Galen touched her in ways she didn't think he was supposed to, but Day never believed he. She started scrubbing people's floors and ironing for small amounts of money

Chapter #17 Southam’s Experiments

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Southam's experiments involved injecting cultured human cancer cells into healthy people to test their natural immunity to cancer. They later observed that the volunteers rapidly rejected the injected cells, resembling the immune response of healthy people to cancer. These experiments, while controversial, provided insight into the body's natural defense mechanisms against cancer. But they also raised concerns about the use of people without their full informed consent, leading to a lengthy hearing and the suspension of Southam and his colleague, Mandel, for fraud and unprofessional conduct.

Chapter #21 Johns Hopkins Hospital

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There is no direct quote from anyone at Johns Hopkins Hospital regarding who should pay for her medical care. The debate over Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa cells revolves around the ethics of using tissue without informed consent and whether her family should receive compensation for the billions of dollars derived from the cells.