- Medical research / cancer research in the 1940s / 1950s
- Segregation in America in the 1940s / 1950s
- American history (politics, economics, social factors) in the 1940s / 1950s
You should write a minimum of 2 paragraphs about the topic you choose. Please DO NOT PLAGIARIZE but use quotations or paraphrasing when you get information from other sources.
Please title your post: BP #3 - Mini Research: (your topic)
BP #3 is due on Tuesday, Jan. 10
Medical research / Cancer research in the 1940s / 1950s
ReplyDeleteMedical researchers were looking for a cure of cancer for a long-long time. It is one of the most dangerous disease that can happen to any person in their life-time. Basically its a kind of tumor that, where the specific cells grow very fast and within a short time it effects the whole body and destroy the natural functions of the body. In 1940s/1950s cancer research in the U.S. was not very well as they are now. On that time the medical didn't have good technology's and better treatment systems. The hospitals were not very much enriched of machines and lab rooms.
During that time the doctors and the lab researchers were less careful to their patients and some times they do researches on their patients which is immoral. They tried to invent some kind of medication that stops the growth of the cells and which destroys cancer cells. On that period of time, a great cancer researcher named George Gey collected some cancer cells from a patient in his hospital called Henrietta Lacks. Later he found her cells are immortal and those cells help to make cure for thousands of patients who have cancer. Henrietta Lacks died of cervix cancer in 19151 when she was just 31years old but her cells are still alive in the lab rooms and serving the world.