Doctor GEY brings Henrietta's cells into lab. He and his assistant MARY have a experiment for Henrietta' s cells. After 48 hours, Henrietta's cell start spreading quickly. The cells grow doubling their numbers every 24 hours. The first immortal human cell was born named HELA. Henrietta does not know about her cells grow up at lab.When Henrietta finishes her first radium treatment at hospital, she goes back to life as usual.Henrietta does not want anybody knows she is sick. She keepes secret until she has to stay at her cousins' home and wait her husband for pick up her. She tells her cousins about she got a cancer at carnival.After two weeks later, she gets second radium treatment. Each time she finished her treatment, she felt very sick.
Eleven years later, the author saw Roland Pattilo who has been one student of Geogre Gey at The HELA control symposium, a medicine school in Atlanta. She told she wants to write a book about Henrietta and she also told the reason why she wants to do it. Pattilo gave a telephone number of Henrietta's daughter to the author. Then she called this number, Henrietta's daughter answered the phone. At first Deborah promised the author to talk her mother. When she called this number again, she denied saying anything about it. Deborah gave her father and brother's number to author. But when she called these number, they also did not want to talk about it.
Gey used Henrietta's cells for cancer research. He sent cells to different states and different researchers. At that time,Carrel grew immortal chicken heart cells was very popular in cell culture.
When Carrel died, the chicken heart become trash.Either way, the Henrietta's cells start growing, nobody paid attention to it at all.
Henrietta's health is not going well when she goes to hospital each time. She tells doctor she does not feel well, but the doctor does not have any way to clean up the pain. Henrietta's husband knows her wife was sick. Every day he take his wife to hospital for radium treatment. After Henrietta's 31 years birthday, she has to stay hospital and get a better cared for. Doctors try to ease her pain, the new tumor appear daily on her body. During she is at hospital, GEY visits her. GEY tells her about her immortal cells and that cell could help other people.Henrietta accepts it.
Impression:
Henrietta is a strong woman. She is never afraid of cancer even she knows her disease is getting worst.
Question: why did Henrietta's daughter deny to answer the question ?
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