Immortal cells: Henrietta Lacks’ family settle lawsuit over HeLa tissue harvested in 1950s

The Guardian ^ | Aug 2 | Staff

[RandFan]

This is interesting... I posted about Henrietta Lacks in 2021 when Alex Jones mentioned they were using her cells in the COVID vaccines:

"I'm not gonna' pretend I know exactly what they're doin' but it's world ending, baby. They're putting Henrietta Lacks cells in you."

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3978762/posts

[Jonty30]

I have to live forever in a liberal world?
Help me!

[Steely Tom]

When I was growing up (and very interested in cancer research) I read they were cultured from a woman named Helen Lane.

[Honorary Serb]

That’s what I was told when I was in undergraduate school.

But Henrietta Lacks is correct!

[Sacajaweau]

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/henrietta-lacks-immortal-cells-6421299/

[Sacajaweau]

Helen Lane was a pseudonym...mentioned in the link I just posted.

[Steely Tom]

Strange. I wonder why they kept her real name under wraps.

[null and void]

Her cell line crossed paths with me when I was working on BioMEMS devices.

I still have my all stock certificates.
$7.43 worth...

[Steely Tom]

Helen Lane was a pseudonym...mentioned in the link I just posted.

Like "Jane Roe" of Row v. Wade "fame."

[Blurb2350]

Perhaps that was a pseudonym used to protect her survivors’ privacy . . . and to hide the cell line’s source. And if the shyster Benjamin Crump is “pleased with the outcome” you can be sure many, many millions of dollars changed hands.

[PghBaldy]

Some of the family wasn’t happy with Oprah and her movie ($$$) either. They did deserve money for the use if their loved one’s cells, though.

[Sacajaweau]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/21/henrietta-lacks-statue-replaces-robert-e-lee-monument-virginia

[griswold3]

Benjamin Crump *spit*

[Sacajaweau]

And she gets a statue, too. See Post 12...replacing Robert E. Lee...is just plain wrong...

Put Lee back...

[2CAVTrooper]

"The tissue sample that became the HeLa cell line was cut from Lacks’ cervix at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore without her knowledge during surgery to treat her cervical cancer. Lacks died of the disease at age 31. Since then, it is estimated, 50m tonnes of her cells have been produced.

Lacks’ estate sued Thermo Fisher in Baltimore federal court in 2021, asserting her family had “not seen a dime” of money that Thermo Fisher made from cultivating the HeLa line of cells that originated from tissue taken without Lacks’ consent during a medical procedure in 1951. If she was having surgery, wouldn't she have signed some sort of document before hand? Wouldn't the doctors explain what would be done during the procedure? Did she say, ok let's get it over with? Crump is literally the smelly skidmark on America's underwear, and is a poster child for tougher standards for passing the bar exam.

[2CAVTrooper]

“And if the shyster Benjamin Crump is “pleased with the outcome” you can be sure many, many millions of dollars changed hands.”

And the family will only get pennies on the dollar out of the settlement.

[Moonmad27]

I always found this story of her “living” forever in this way very creepy, and Helen Lane was what I’d first heard. The fact that it was an African American woman is what made it a cause celebre. Oprah and Crump would not have cared less for a white family.

[Captain Peter Blood]

The question is were they able to find the surgical consent form, if it existed, years later??????

[markman46]

The hospital records would be on microfilm

[MarMema]

Nobody worried about tissues in those days.