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Henrietta Lacks

American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the hela cell line.

Born August 1st, 1920 in Roanoke.

Died October 4th, 1951 at 31 years old in Baltimore (cervical adenocarcinoma).

Occupations
farmworker, homemaker
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