Henrietta Lax was a mother of five who died of cervical cancer in 1951 at the age of 31.

Before she passed, a tissue sample of her cancer cells was taken.

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Henrietta Lax was born in 1920 in Roanoke, Virginia.

She was an African American woman whose mother died when she was four years old, giving birth to her tenth child. Her father was unable

to raise ten young children so Henrietta was sent to live with her grandfather. She was

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