Immortal Woman

In 1951, a poor African American tobacco farmer named Henrietta Lacks visited Johns Hopkins Hospital complaining of a "e;knot"e; in her womb. Doctors took a biopsy of her aggressive cervical cancer without her knowledge or consent. Henrietta died months later, but her cells did something no human cells had ever done before in a lab: they didn't die. They multiplied. "e;The Immortal Woman"e; tell...