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In reading the pages that were assigned in the book, “The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks”, it is about an African American woman who grew up with her grandfather and some cousins.  She studied until sixth grade and her cousin Day studied until fourth grade.  They had to work hard in the farm because they had to wake every morning to feed the animals and work in the land.   Henrietta got married with Day when she was twenty years old but earlier on had a baby out of wedlock at an earlier age.  After she had her second child, they moved to another city to look for a better life. In addition, she had a third child and later she felt ill because she felt like a knot on her womb.  Her husband took her to Johns Hopkins hospital because this was the only Hospital for black people at the time and it was far away.  The doctor did not find anything wrong with her at the time and he just give her some medications for the pain that she was feeling.  Later on she had two more children and she still was not feeling well and she had vaginal bleeding and blood in her urine while she was pregnant with her two last babies.  When she got to the hospital, the gynecologist check her and he took some pieces of her cervix and sent them to do a biopsy. Afterwards, the doctor got the results and she discovered she had cancer. After her death, her doctor took some samples of her cervix and sent them to the laboratory. They realize that her cells never died like other people cells and they call them HeLa cells. They began testing and found that her cells can helped develop some drugs treating some diseases such as herpes, leukemia, and influenza and so on. The doctor never told her family that he took those samples from her body.   It was not until later that sadly her family discovered what was happening with the cells of Henrietta twenty years later since she had died.

How she had two more children with a cervical cancer?

Why they detected the cancer so late?