A Family Consents to a Medical Gift, 62 Years Later

A Family Consents to a Medical Gift, 62 Years Later - NYTimes.com: "Henrietta Lacks was only 31 when she died of cervical cancer in 1951 in a Baltimore hospital. Not long before her death, doctors removed some of her tumor cells. They later discovered that the cells could thrive in a lab, a feat no human cells had achieved before."