What is the full name of the woman known as Henrietta Lacks?
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The full name of the woman known as Henrietta Lacks is Henrietta Lacks. She was an African American woman from Virginia whose cancerous cells were taken without her knowledge or consent in 1951 and used to create the HeLa cell line, one of the most important cell lines in medical research.
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