We can actually deduce here that the factors that one thinks that were responsible for her family being kept in the dark about the many ways in which the study of her cells were contributing to medical science are:
Henrietta Cells which is also known as HeLa cells are known to be cancer cell lines that were gotten from Henrietta Lacks and they were immortalised. Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman.
Being from a black race, her family was kept in the dark about her cells because at that period they had no social freedom to be informed.
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