Agreement on Use of Genetic Information from 61-Year-Old Cervical Cancer Cells Sets New Ethical Privacy Standards for Clinical Pathology Laboratories

Family of Henrietta Lacks, who died in 1951, will have a say in the research use of the  HeLA cancer cells Patient privacy rights involving genetic information has gone to a new level. Pathologists and clinical laboratory managers will want to understand the legal precedents and new standards established in an unprecedented agreement between the family of a woman who died in 1951 and the growing research establishment studying her cervical cancer cells following her death. It is a...
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