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Henrietta Lacks (born as Loretta Pleasant) - Coggle Diagram
Henrietta Lacks (born as Loretta Pleasant)
Born on August 1, 1920 in Roanoke, Virginia
Parents are Eliza Pleasant (1886-1924) and John Randall Pleasant (1881-19690
has 5 kids
David "Sonny" Lacks
Deborah Lacks Pullum (1949-2009)
Elsie Lacks (1939-1955)
Zakariyya Bari Abdul Rahman (born as Joseph Lacks)
Lawrence Lacks
married to David Lacks in 1941
died in 2002
at the age of 30, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer and did radium treatment
A doctor at John Hopkins took a piece of her tumor without her permission and sent it down to scientists, who been trying to grow tissues. No one knows why, but her cells never died.
her cells were called "HeLa cells" but her cells are important because they are the first immortal human cells to ever grow and were essential to develop the polio vaccine.
Henrietta died on October 4, 1951 at John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
her identity was kept hidden from the world and researchers used a fake name, which was Helen Lane to throw the media off track until the 1970s, when her real name was leaked to the world.
Rebecca Skloot was an author, who was doing research on Henrietta Lacks and writing a book about her.
she developed a friendship with Deborah
The book is called
The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks
and
When she was about to write this book, Henrietta already died decades ago. So, she relied on interviews, legal documents, and her medical records.