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.