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Lacks, a mother of five, died at age 31 of cervical cancer in October 1951, just eight months after her diagnosis. During a visit to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, which was racially segregated at the time, she complained of vaginal bleeding, which led her gynecologist to discover a large, malignant tumor on her cervix.