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Hello Hello and welcome to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service with me for Hana Hiver.

And today I'm bringing you the story of a woman who played a largely unsung role in countless

medical breakthroughs over more than half a century. Henrietta Lax was an African American woman who had cells taken from her body without her consent or knowledge in 1951 when she was suffering from cancer.

Those cells would go on to revolutionize medical science.

Henry Toulax was born in 1920 in Virginia. By

1951 she was the mother of five children and living in Baltimore. Her cells have gone

on to become one of the most important tools in medicine and for decades

her family have been fighting for a say in how those cells are used.

I said, you're working on her cells and he said yeah he says her cells were still alive and I just I was just truly amazed

I'd never seen anything look like it and I don't think I've seen anything

looked like it since so it was a very special different kind of of what turned

out to be a tune.

Henrietta Lach's first went to Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951.

At the time, it was the only hospital near her that treated black patients.

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