she got that and i do not know how
suffering from cervical cancer
Henrietta Lacks
Henrietta lacks died on October 4, 1951 at the age of 31.
Day (or David Lacks) was Henrietta Lacks's first cousin and later her husband.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was created in 2010.
Howard Jones
"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot has 381 pages in its paperback edition.
Cervical Cancer
Cells were taken while she was being treated for cancer many years ago, and these cells have been cultured in the lab ever since.
67 years old
HeLa cells are human cervical cancer cells (the cervix is found at the top of the vagina). HeLa cells come from a sample taken from a woman called Henrietta Lacks and were named using the two initials of her first (He) and last (La) names.
Henrietta Leaver died on September 18, 1993, in USA of cancer.