
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, March 14, 1994                   TAG: 9403140179
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: CINCINNATI                                LENGTH: Short

HUMAN RADIATION TESTS DONE FOR WAR INJURIES

A researcher's goal for human radiation experiments was to develop a test for measuring radiation injury on the battlefield, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Sunday.

The newspaper examined 14 years' worth of Pentagon documents about experiments that University of Cincinnati radiologist Dr. Eugene Saenger conducted from 1960 to 1971 at what then was General Hospital.

In 1958, Saenger proposed a yearlong project that turned into an 11-year, $651,000 study involving at least 88 cancer patients, the Enquirer said.

The documents show Saenger promoted his research not as cancer therapy, but as a way to measure human reactions to radiation. That goal was never accomplished.

Patients signed consent forms, but the forms never mentioned the possibility of death, the newspaper reported.

- Associated Press

by CNB