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Who was Henrietta Lacks? The life of the woman whose 'immortal' cells changed modern medicine forever.

  • Henrietta Lacks changed modern medicine when doctors took her cells without her consent in 1951.
  • Lacks began feeling 'knots' in her stomach in 1950, and was diagnosed with cervical cancer by Johns Hopkins doctors.
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