Henrietta Lacks

Standard Name: Lacks, Henrietta

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4 October 1951: A coloured American woman named Henrietta...

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4 October 1951

A coloured American woman named Henrietta Lacks died of virulent cancer, riddled with tumours. She was aged just thirty-one.
Gere, Cathy. “Dying and Not Dying”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 11, pp. 16-18.
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