Uninformed Consent: Seattle Times

THE BLOOD-CANCER EXPERIMENT

Becky Wright holds her niece after her second bone-marrow transplant in Seattle. She died in 1987.

Patients never knew the full danger of trials they staked their lives on The story of Protocol 126, a blood-cancer experiment at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in which at least 20 people died. They were never told that The Hutch and some of its doctors had a financial interest in drugs being tested in the experiment, nor that there were safer, more effective alternative treatments.
	• A timeline of events in the Protocol 126 experiment
The Hutch is a major player in cancer care and research The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle has saved thousands of lives in its 25 years of existence.
The story behind today's special report on 'The Hutch.' Seattle Times executive editor Mike Fancher explains the origins of this story and our reasons for telling it now.