...Howard Jones took a biopsy from Henrietta and got the test results quite quickly. The news was not great: stage I cancer of the cervix, but Henrietta was told there could be a positive aspect. Richard Wesley TeLinde, the boss of Henrietta's doctor, Howard Jones. TeLinde argued that cervical carcinoma in situ (Henrietta's diagnosis), considered a "non-invasive" cancer, can still metastasize, or spread, becoming something more serious if not treated (Shmoop). Not everyone was convinced. The pap smear was a new technology and was only introduced ten years prior to the diagnosis of Henrietta’s cervical cancer. It still wasn't being used frequently or properly to diagnose abnormal cervical cells (Shmoop). TeLinde decided to prove his theory; with Hopkins being a place where many poor black families were treated, he figured the hunting ground was ripe with poor unintelligent test subjects. The medical experiments...
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...Hospital, diagnosed her with Epidermoid Carcinoma of the Cervix Stage 1. Then eight months later, Henrietta enters into her final rest on October 4, 1951. What made her demise different from other related death, is that her cancerous cells changed medical history. Henrietta cancer cells killed her, it metastasized throughout her...
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...Ethical Principles Paper Nadia Brown University of Phoenix Ethical Principles Paper Henrietta Lacks was born on August 1, 1920, in Roanoke, Virginia and she died due to complications of cervical cancer on October 4, 1951.She had been receiving treatment at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. At the hospital she was treated with radium tube inserts, which is said to be the standard treatment for cervical cancer in 1951. As a matter of routine, samples of her cervix were removed without permission. Henrietta was 31 years old when she died. In this time it was customary for doctors and researchers to remove cells from a person for testing. Likewise cells were taken from Henrietta. The problem was that the cells were taken from her body without her knowledge or consent. These cells were later used to form the HeLa cell. The HeLa cell has been used many times over in medical research since they were removed from the body of Henrietta Lacks. The lack of consent in this case shined a light on the legal and ethical issues involved in medical research. On October 4, 1951 Henrietta Lacks died, but unlike others her cells did not die. Samples of her cells were removed from her body without her permission. During this time doctors frequently removed cells from patients without their permission or consent. Informed consent did not come into practice until the late 1970s due to another controversial case, the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment of 1932-1972. ...
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