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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (film)
American television film
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a dramatelevision film directed by George C.
Wolfe and starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne. It is based on the book of the same name by Rebecca Skloot and documents the story of Henrietta Lacks, who was diagnosed with cervical cancer in the s, and whose cancer cells (later known as HeLa) would change the course of cancer treatment.
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The film premiered on HBO on April 22, [1]
Background
In January , Henrietta Lacks suffered complications while giving birth. A biopsy taken in February confirmed that she had cervical cancer.
Lacks died in October, having never been told that cells from her tumor were being used for research; not sharing this information was common practice in the United States at the time.[2]Cell biologistGeorge Otto Gey found that the cells could be kept alive,[3] and developed into what is&#;&#; as of &#;&#;