Cancer is not the only thing that Henrietta has to deal with she has to send her daughter to a mental institute since she can’t take care of her. Henrietta had to tell her cousin that she has cancer because she had moved to her house to be able to go to the hospital which was nearby. In chapter five Henrietta has done 2 radium treatments and the doctors tell her that the cancer is getting smaller, but she will still have to come to the hospital daily for one month to do x-ray. It also tells about doctor Gay life, how he paid his college and the experiments he did in college. It also tells how doctor Gey had hired his assistant and why. When Henrietta leave the hospital Mary notice that Henrietta cells didn’t die and they are reproducing. In the mean while, Henrietta stays 2 days at the hospital recovering from the radium treatment.
This chapter is about when the samples from Henrietta come to the lab to be experiment on but the doctor assistant is at lunch and takes her time to get to the samples. Henrietta finds out she has cancer but does not let her family know what is wrong with her. They also start using Henrietta as one of their patients for the studies. The doctors at the Hopkins hospital start doing their own medical studies from patients without their consent. It also explains how radium was used to destroy the cancer and many other things but it also kill the person that was been treated with that. Their idea to cure cancer is to treat the tumor before it has become cancerous they use Pap smear as a way to prevent cancer. In chapter it explains how the doctors at the Hopkins hospital are working on getting a cure for cervical cancer. It also tells how Henrietta ends up marrying her cousin David and has 5 kids. It describes their childhood life at the farm how they had to work and the things they did to pass the time. Henrietta was left with her grandfather who was also raising her cousin David lacks. Her mother died when she was only 4 years old and her father could not take care of all 10 so he moved back to where rest of the family was and split all the kids to different family members. In this chapter it tells the early life of Henrietta how she was one of 10 kids. They had they own section on the hospital for black people. The chapter also explains the time of period it was in as it describes how they were segregated. The gynecologist looks at her medical history notices that Henrietta had a list of untreated medical problems. Henrietta had felt this lump for a long time but though it was because of her pregnancy of her 5th child. Chapter one is about when Henrietta lacks is in the Hopkins hospital explaining to the doctor that she has a lump.
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