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Human body irradiation program - fact sheet - from charles w. Edington, office of energy research, to alvin w. Trivelpiece, director, office of energy reserch. Facts have been prepared to summarize the information relevant to the lawsuit being prepared against the federal government (doe, department of the army, and nasa) on behalf of the family of decedent (redacted) who received medical treatment for acute lymphatic leukemia at the medical division of orau in july 1964. The lawsuit alleges that the effective chemotherapy was withheld, and that the claimants were denied information regarding alternative treatment and the hazards of the radiation exposures.
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.' Alvin. 11.. Tr iv k ple ce, Directs Irc lev n nt to the ' lawsuit- being 'prepared qa in et the Federal. Govern an .- ..la mu it alleges that the procedures used were - inappropriate for the and that the claimants were' dcnicd .info nmt ion rez ard in galt ' Congressional oversight hca The'hearings i rkc it l gated the ' d lei at ions that fac that tree tnc nts were.of little the rap cut ic value and inferior to other .. . over proper cicdical considerations. objectives -- the first was to seek - in form tion that night lead to in proved. during this period were consid c red for this the rap cut ic program. microscopic study of sureical biopsics , bone mrrow', and per ip her nl blood sazples. The urgency for treat nen t was assessed, and those pn tic nts whose :. . condition required so mother kind of therapy,or no therapy at al1,"were or.ilttcd. . If the clinical status was changing rapidly and i t vas antic ipa tcd : that otk.er s dd it ional treatrrrent dght be needed during the post irradiation. ._. Guperior therapy vas ' available ' for a particular patient and the total-body
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rna f aLi ol ~t rc at nen t was regarded as an acceptable way of mnage = nt,the ' tile research protocol. c chic dpr z ct ice to protect the rights of the Individual aa a research Under an interajcency agree cent betwcen NASA and AEX, task9 was begun in' 1964to identify and con pil c in for nation on c ffcc ts observed i n Iiur~ans. the course of thc rn py for disc ace,aidto organize and interpret this..... inforiilaticln to. cupyort NASA's responsibilities ' for planning and conducting iri ter eot in this prcs ~ ecriv es tudy was solely in acquiring accurate radiation dose-response data on a non-intcrfcrcncc basis front he AEC/OKINS clinic n lI study of the eff z ct iv cn css of lob-level total body radio tion in treating pcrcions with certain typo of n co plastic diseases (lyctphoma, . ' . any othcr aspect of the clinical ctu'dy. acquiring dzita fro s adult hu w n radiation exposure. Informed consent was obtaincd i n accordance crith ....T est in ony at the hearings est z lli shed that I.IhSA'sKO evidence was found that I-NSA had any role in the selection NASA was interested only In: ..... inthe course of his treatment at the fled i ' cd Division ' o f .' . , ' .OlUv, uat; treated with several ex per iw n tal procedures including irradiation of txt r acted bone marrow, subsequent injection into his mother snc! re injection of her SCIUIQ into hln, as well 31; an esp cri w.ntd total body irradiation in the fiediuru Exposure Total Body Xrradiator, lie wee ' then transferred to a second facility -- the Low Exposure Total Bdy .... Cnnccr Rcoeardi Center,told Gore th ac the .treatment status for Icu ken i a at the tine was such that any new trcat : .xnt could be tried. Eesldes the scientific and nedicrd. experts testify iw on the medical need and acceptability of the tre ilta cnt s given, f ii quy mmllars of other ,. . saving a relative and also subst en tie tcd &lie quality of good cafe proyicled.. . . One witness,Dr. Peter L'iernik of the En l tim re ' patients testified th ct this facility offered their one last hopc for:.. .... Mtc r the h car iw, In response to questions of reporters, Altcrt Gore, Jr. stated that he thought that the testiriouy cssentinlly refuted the charges r;i: thc simc fn for u ation thoroughly and adequately covered in the hFarfngsTlierc has bcen notlling subsequent This current lat1suit is based