The Immortal Life of Henreitta Lack (Chapter 3-4)

Timelines of Chapter 3-4

Chapter 3

1. TeLinde develops a theory about invasive carcinoma and carcinoma in situ that could save millions of women from dying of cervical cancer.
2. TeLinde gives presentation about carcinoma in situ and is heckled off stage.
3. Henrietta returns from her first visit to John Hopkins into her normal life of cleaning and cooking.
4. TeLinde calls Doctor George Gey and offers him cervical cancer cells to culture.
5. Doctor Howard Jones finds that Henrietta has epidermoid carcinoma of the cervix, stage 1.
6. Jones tells Henrietta that her cancer is malignant, but she keeps it secret from her family.
7. Henrietta returns for treatment and gives consent to surgery.
8. Henrietta is treated with radium.
9. Surgeon Wharton shaves two small pieces of tissue from Henrietta's cervix for research. 
10. The tissue sample was sent to Doctor George Grey's lab.

Chapter 4

1. The Gey's experiment mediums for suitable cell culture conditions.
2. Margaret Gey hires Minnie to sterilize the cell culture lab.
3. Gey gives his assistant Mary Kubicek the sample of Henrietta's tissues to cut up.
4. Mary cuts the tissue into one-millimeter pieces and labels them "HeLa."
5. Mary puts Henrietta's cells in Doctor Gey's "whirligig."
6. Doctors note good responses to Henrietta's radium treatment.
7. Doctors remove the radium before they send Henrietta home.
8. Mary notices Henrietta's cells turning into a fried egg shape.
9. The HeLa cells begin to multiply every 24 hours.
10. Gey sends his closest colleagues samples of Henrietta's cells.