When cells were first taken from henrietta lacks, she was when cells were first taken from henrietta lacks, she was in high school suffering from cervical cancer already dead only two years old?

She was suffering from cervical cancer when cells were first taken from henrietta lacks. While she was being treated for cancer many years ago her cells were taken and have been cultured in the laboratory ever since. She was never communicated that her cells were being taken and neither she nor her family has stood recompensed.