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THE BREAST-CANCER EXPERIMENT
 

Harley Soltes / The Seattle Times
Chris Addicott holds a 1969 snapshot of his mother, Kathryn Hamilton, as he wants to remember her. She is carrying him in a baby backpack as he looks up into the falling snow.
 
With a year or two to live, woman joined test in which she was misled — and died
Dying of breast cancer, Kathryn Hamilton agreed to enter a clinical trial at The Hutch. But her doctors didn't tell her several important details, including that there were serious questions about the effectiveness of the drugs she was to be given and that a patient had already died from the treatment.
 

Many patients think that joining testing will help them, but often they're mistaken
The bedrock ethic of any human research is that a patient must fully understand an experiment before participating in it. Yet the nation's top enforcer of human-research ethics says that the biggest problem in research today is that, often, this is not happening.



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