![]() Rebecca: Yes, they would cut off these little, teeny-tiny pieces. Rebecca: There was something very strange about the way it looked. Howard: -when you touch it, you might think it was red Jello. ![]() Rebecca: This didn't look like a normal tumor. I never saw anything like it before or after. When she came in to see you, can you tell me anything about what she was like? Jad: The guy she eventually ended up seeing at Johns Hopkins University was this fellow, Dr. Howard Jones: By chance, I happen to be an attending at that time. Rebecca: First, she went into her local doctor.ĭr. She climbed into her bathtub and she slid her fingers up inside of herself and found this lump. She had told her cousins for a while that she felt there was something wrong with her womb. Rebecca: It's all a little bit of a mystery how she initially knew this, but she knew it was there. Begins in 1950, a black woman in Baltimore is in her bathroom and she discovers pretty much all on her own that she has cancer. The story is about a tumor that expands and never stops. Jad: She just wrote a book called The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. She's been researching this story for 10 years. Jad: She has been wanting to tell the story. Rebecca Skloot: You may talk, make noise. It's a story that comes from a friend of mine, Rebecca Skloot. ![]() Robert: You've been wanting to do this particular tumor story forever. Our next and final tumor-related tale is one I've been. It doesn't matter because the topic is tumors, famous tumors. Jad: This is Radiolab and our topic today is. Announcer: Listener-supported WNYC Studios.
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