Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed with cervical cancer and received treatment from doctors, who removed and studied her cells without her permission. Lacks was the source of a living cell line used in medical research, known as 'HeLa' cells.
, whose cells were taken without her permission and used for medical developments, will be built in her hometown of Roanoke, Virginia. Lacks' new statue will replace a monument of Robert E. Lee.
Roanoke artist Bryce Cobbs had only two photos of Lacks, who lived from 1920 until 1951, from which to draw her, the first phase of a project for which a fundraiser collected more than $160,000, the AP noted.
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