Are The Main Points Of The Book The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks

Introduction The topic of this paper will be the book “ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”. This paper will talk about five main points of the book that I thought were the biggest and most important parts of the book. Growing up As Henrietta was growing up, she lived with her grandfather and other cousins. Henrietta had eight older siblings and two younger siblings. Her mother Eliza Lacks Pleasant died giving birth to their tenth child. Her father Johnny Pleasant (did not have the patience to raise ten children, so when Eliza died , he took them all back to Clover, Virginia where his family still farmed he tobacco fields their ancestors had worked as slaves.

Cervical carcinomas are divided into two types. The two types are invasive carcinomas which penetrate the surface of the cervix, and noninvasive carcinomas which do not penetrate the surface of the cervix. The noninvasive type is mostly called “ sugar-icing carcinoma,” because it grows in a smooth layered sheet across the surface of the cervix, but the official name for it is carcinoma in situ. On February 5, 1951 after Jones got Henrietta's report back from the lab, and told her the cancer was malignant. Then she just went right on with her day as normal. That night she told Day that she needed to go back to the hospital the next day. When Henrietta got to the hospital she went straight to the admissions desk. She told the receptionist she was there for her treatment for the cancer. Then she signed an operation permit. Hopkins treated all invasive cervical carcinomas with radium, a white radioactive metal that glows an eerie blue. Radium destroys any cells it encounters and patients who took it for trivial problems began dying. Radium caused mutations that can turn into cancer, and at high doses it can burn the skin off a person's body. It also kills cancer

She just kept raising her kids. She worked various jobs like a notary public, grocery store clerk, barber, chemical mixer at a cement plant, and a limousine driver. In 1980 four years after she divorced her husband Cheetah, then she married a car mechanic, James Pullum who also worked at a local steel mill. After they got married he got called by the Lord to moonlight as a preacher. He had some run ins with the law before he got saved. Deborah felt safe with him. He asked her why he had never met her mother, and Deborah laid the Rolling Stone article on the table and said read that and you will understand. He told her that she should get a lawyer. Zakariyya got out of prison after serving seven of his fifteen year sentence. He got himself certified to fix air conditioners and work on trucks. He still wrestled with drinking and anger. Zakariyya always blamed Day for Henrietta's death and hated him for burying him in an unmarked