(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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Her cells keep growing and do not die like other human cells.
She tries to talk to Henrietta’s family, but they do not trust her at first.
Deborah is confused and scared about what happened to her mother’s cells.
Rebecca learns that HeLa cells came from a real woman, not just a lab sample.
The family remembers doctors taking blood samples without clear explanations.
Doctors tell her she has cervical cancer.
Rebecca carefully explains how cells and cancer work.
Years later, a writer named Rebecca Skloot becomes interested in the story of HeLa cells.
The treatments do not work, and Henrietta’s health gets worse.
Henrietta Lacks is introduced as a hardworking Black woman living in Maryland in the 1950s.
HeLa cells are grown in labs and sent to scientists all over the world.
Deborah worries that her mother’s cells were abused or hurt.
Henrietta receives painful radium treatments, which were common at the time.
Henrietta dies in 1951, leaving behind her husband and five children.
-Deborah agrees to work with Rebecca to better understand what happened to her mother.
While treating her, doctors take samples of her tumor without asking her permission.
She starts having strong stomach pain and heavy bleeding.
Doctors name her cells HeLa, using the first letters of her name.
Deborah explains that her family has struggled with poverty and mistrust of doctors.
Scientists use HeLa cells to help with major medical research.
