Henrietta Lacks is the woman responsible for our medical advancements. She was a Black woman who died from complications of cervical cancer at the age of 31 in 1951. Tragically, she had complained to her doctor for months that something was wrong, but she was not taken seriously until her cancer was too advanced. She was treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital, one of the few hospitals at the time that would treat Black patients. Despite receiving radiation therapy, her cancer metastasized and caused large tumors to grow throughout her body. Tumors obstructing her urethra ultimately led to blood…