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Chapter 22
Chapter 22A
Chapter 22B
Chapter 22C
Chapter 23
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George Gey had this at 71.
What is pancreatic cancer?
100
This is what George Geys cells were called.
What is GeGe?
100
This is the day George Gey died.
What is November 8, 1970?
100
This is when it was pledged that American and Russian scientists would work together to find the cancer virus.
What is May 1972?
100
This is who Bobbette learned about HeLa cells from.
What is Gardenia's brother-in-law?
200
This is when Howard Jones discovered Henrietta had been misdiagnosed.
What is 1971?
200
This is why surgeons did not take samples from Gey.
What is cutting the cancer might kill him?
200
George was this height and weighed this much.
What is 6" tall and 215 lbs.?
200
The "War on Cancer" was intended to distract attention from this.
What is the Vietnam War?
200
This is the name of Victor McKusick's gene database.
What is the Mendelian Ihheritance in Man?
300
This is where Gey went for an experimental Japanese treatment.
What is the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota?
300
This is the name of the publication Henrietta's real name first appeared.
What is Obstretrics and Gynecology?
300
It was announced that cancer would be cured in this many years.
What is 5 years?
300
This is what J Douglass from Brunel University wrote that HeLa cells were named after Henrietta Lacks.
What is Science Magazine?
300
This is the name of the test McKusick and Hsu hoped to use on the Lacks family.
What is Somatic-Cell Hybridization?
400
They wrote an article about the history of HeLa.
Who are Howard Jones & Victor McKusick?
400
This is who signed the National Cancer Act designating this amount of money for cancer research.
Who is Richard M. Nixon and $1.5 billion?
400
This is Henrietta's correct diagnosis.
What is aggressive adenocarcinoma of the cervix?
400
These city newspapers ran headlines like CANCER FROM LONG-DEAD WOMAN INVADE OTHER CULTURES.
What is London, Arizona, New York and Washington, DC?
400
They launched an investigation in response to Tuskegee and several other unethical studies.
What is the Department of Health, Education, & Welfare?
500
George Gey's growths were inoperable and covered these organs.
What is his stomach, spleen, liver, and intestines?
500
He discovered that the cells from Russian cancer patients were from HeLa and published this.
Who is Walter Nelson-Rees and the "HeLa Lists?"
500
Rumors about Helen L. said she was George Gey;s ____________ or a __________________ or a ___________________.
What is his secretary, mistress, a prostitute or a figment of Gey's imagination?
500
Near the end of 1972, the US Government had Russian cancer patient cells hand-delivered her.
What is the Naval Biomedical Research Laboratory in CA?
500
In June 1973, researchers gathered at Yale University for this.
What is the 1st International Workshop on Gene Mapping?