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Carrel, a French scientist, grows immortal chicken cells. It was later discovered that he probably faked this.
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in Roanoke, Virginia
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Henrietta first goes to the doctor regarding her cervical cancer.
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He explains HeLa cells may help scientsis find a cure for cancer.
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Henrietta Lacks dies from uremic poisoning since her kidneys can no longer function properly. She was buried in an unmarked grave in Lacks Town with her family.
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Deborah Lacks had her first child with Cheetah
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He requests that the surgeons take out samples of his cancer much like they did ffor Henrietta Lacks but they do not in fear that this would kill him.
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He served 15 years in prision where he converted to Islam and changed is name to Zakariyya Bari Abdul Rahman
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Dr. Gey dies 3 months after his diagnosis.
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Although it wouldn't have changed the treatment she recieved it helped explain the reason it spread so fast.
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This designated $1.5 billion to cnacer research over the next three years
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in a published letter in a journal called Nature
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