The 30-year-old mother of five, Henrietta Lacks, USA, died on October 4, 1951 as a result of an aggressive tumor in her uterus. She did not know that the doctors had taken tissue samples from the tumor and grown them further in the laboratory. And she had not given her consent for the cells to continue to be used in research.
It was not until 20 years later that her family learned that her cells lived on and were used by researchers around the world.
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