Life/Family of Henrietta
Patient Ethics
Medical Break throughs of HeLa
Information about HeLa Cells
100

Henrieta had a daughter named_

Who is Deborah Lacks? 

100

This is a type of permission that must come directly from a patient to allow a doctor to perform procedures or use some sort of part of the patient's body__

What is informed consent?

100

The HeLa was crucial in developing a vaccine that is known to help eliminate a disease that has paralyzed many children__

What is polio vaccine?

100

HeLa cells were the first to do this action successfully outside of the human body__

What is divide continuously? 

200

Henrieta went to this hospital for cervical cancer treatment_

What is Johns Hopkins? 

200

For decades, The family of Henrietta was unaware of the fact that Henrietta's cells were being used. This shows a lack of this ethical value__

What is transparency? 

200

The Researchers used HeLa in order to help with the understanding of how these viruses impact human cells (CD4 T)

What is HIV/AIDS?

200

It is a part of the HeLa is at the end of their chromosome and is partly the reason why the HeLa cells can divide continously__

What is telomerase?

300

Henrieta died on_

What is October 4, 1951

300

HeLa's cells made ground breaking discoveries and created million dollar companies, the family never received any of the money. This raised question upon this ethical issue__

What is exploitation?

300

The HeLa Cells helped researchers test how human cells are impacted by this treatment meant to kill cancer__

What is Chemotherapy?

300

HeLa cells have this condition where they have an abnormally large amount of chromosomes and are genetically unstable__ 

What is aneuploidy? 

400

The author that published the story of Henrieta__

Who is Rebecca Skloot

400

During the movie, the scientists that took Henrietta's blood shared Henrietta's medical records. This violated which ethical right?__

What is privacy?

400
The HeLA was the first human cell to assist in mapping this specific sequence that tells our body how to function and grow 

What is human genome?

400

Another reason that HeLa cells can divide continuously is because they do not have regular aging and death that most human cells go through. This process is known as__

What is apoptosis?

500

Henrieta's family did not find out about the case till this decade__

What is 1970?

500

In the movie, there were scenes that showed how Henrietta's race and class affected her treatment from the medical system. This raised question on this ethical right__

justice

500

Researchers used the HeLa cells to understand how the cancer cells avoid becoming destroyed by the immune system. The discoveries helped treatment for the immune system to be retrained to attack tumors__

What is immunotherapy?

500

Studied in the context of viral oncogenesis, the HeLa cells contain copies of DNA from this virus. The HeLa cell contributed to this virus's cancerous transformation__

What is Human papillomavirus (HPC)